The attentive brain / edited by Raja Parasuraman.

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Of the myriad tasks that the brain has to perform, perhaps none is as crucial to the performance of other tasks as attention. A central thesis of this book on the cognitive neuroscience of attention is that attention is not a single entity, but a finite set of brain processes that interact mutually and with other brain processes in the performance of perceptual, cognitive, and motor skills.

Attentive brain: issues and prospects / Raja Parasuraman -- Neuroanatomy of visual attention / Maree J. Webster and Leslie G. Ungerleider -- Neurochemistry of attention / Richard T. Marrocco and Matthew C. Davidson -- Neurophysiology of visual attention / Brad C. Motter -- Electrophysiological approaches to the study of selective attention in the human brain / Steven J. Luck and Massimo Girelli -- Functional anatomy of visual attention in the human brain: studies with positron emission tomography / Maurizio Corbetta -- Functional magnetic resonance imaging and the study of attention / James V. Haxby, Susan M. Courtney, and Vincent P. Clark -- Cortical lesions and attenton / Diane Swick and Robert T. Knight -- Computational architectures for attention / Ernst Niebur and Christof Koch -- Arousal and attention: psychopharmacological and neuropsychological studies in experimental animals / Trevor W. Robbins -- Brain systems of vigilance / Raja Parasuraman, Joel S. Warm, and Judi E. See -- Visuospatial attention and parietal function: their role in object perception / Lynn C. Robertson -- Attention, pattern recognition, and pop-out in visual search / Ken Nakayama and Julian S. Joseph -- Attention and visual object segmentation / Jon Driver and Gordon C. Baylis -- Divided attention: narrowing the gap between brain and behavior / Jochen Braun -- Spatial working memory and spatial selective attention / Edward Awh and John Jonides -- Attention and language / Ira Fischler -- Executive attention: conflict, target detection, and cognitive control / Michael I. Posner and Gregory J. DiGirolamo -- Developing an attentive brain / Mark H. Johnson -- Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: symptom domains, cognitive processes, and neural networks / James Swanson, Michael I. Posner, et al. -- Selective attention in aging and dementia / Raja Parasuraman and Pamela M. Greenwood -- Neglect / Robert D. Rafal -- Mind adrift: attentional dysregulation in schizophrenia / Paul G. Nestor and Brian F. O'Donnell.

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