The neuroscience of attention : attentional control and selection

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910154726903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource : ill
• Disciplina: 153.7/33
• Soggetti: Attention; Selectivity (Psychology); Cognitive neuroscience; Visual perception; Mental Processes; Arousal; Perception; Biological Science Disciplines; Psychophysiology; Natural Science Disciplines; Psychology; Occupations; Visual Perception; Neurosciences; Cognition; Social Sciences
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Attentional selection for locations, features, and objects in vision / Jens-Max Hopf ... [et al.] -- Involuntary attention / Joseph B. Hopfinger and Emily L. Parks -- Thalamic control of visual attention / Sabine Kastner, Yuri B. Saalmann, and Keith A. Schneider -- Visual attention : computational problems, strategies, and mechanisms / John K. Tsotsos ... [et al.] -- Orienting to the environment : separate contributons of dorsal and ventral frontoparietal attention networks / Carlo Sestieri, ; Gordon L. Shulman, and Maurizio Corbetta -- Midbrain and forebrain systems for bottom-up control of spatial attention / Eric I. Knudsen -- Attention and action in the frontal eye field / Katherine M. Armstrong ... [et al.] -- Attention and the parietal lobe / Michael E. Goldberg ... [et al.] -- A stage theory of attention and action / Jeffrey D. Schall and Geoffrey E. Woodman -- Top-down biases in visual short-term memory / Mark G. Stokes and Anna C. Nobre -- Conflict control loop theory of cognitive control / Marie K. Krug and Cameron S. Carter -- Emotional influences on visuospatial attention / Harlan M. Fichtenholtz and Kevin S. LaBar.
• Sommario/riassunto: This text provides the reader with a solid overview of the mechanisms and models in the neuroscience of attentional control and selection from leading authorities working in humans and animals, and incorporating a array of neuroscience methods from single neuron recordings to functional brain imaging.