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Attention and Brain Function

• By Risto Naatanen

• Price: $125.00
• Binding: Hardback
• Pages: 494
• Published by: Psychology Press (formerly published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates)
• Publication Date: 1st July 1992
• ISBN: 978-0-8058-0984-8

About the Book

This book delineates cerebral mechanisms of attention in humans as they presently appear in the light of data obtained by using various modern brain-research techniques. While the book focuses primarily on the ways humans select environmental information, the selectivity manifest in human thinking, consciousness, and motor behavior is also dealt with in the framework of an expanded attention concept. By combining the most recent evidence from diverse fields of human brain research and relating these physiological data to achievements of modern cognitive psychology, the author has developed an integrative view of human information processing. This theory concentrates on mechanisms of attentional selection and on the automatic processing which provides a basis for the selective processes.

Table of Contents

Contents: E.N. Sokolov, Foreword. Preface. Introduction: What Is Attention? Attention and Automaticity in Information Processing. Measurement of Brain Activity Underlying Information Processing. Event-Related Potentials and Automatic Information Processing. Magnetoencephalography (MEG) and Automatic Processing. Attention and Event-Related Potentials. MEG Studies of Attention. Regional Cerebral Blood-Flow (rCBF) and Metabolic Studies of Selective Attention. Concluding Discussion.