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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809109203321

Titolo

Neurobiology of attention / / edited by Laurent Itti, Geraint Rees, John K. Tsotsos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier Academic Press, 2005

ISBN

1-280-63066-3

9786610630660

0-08-045431-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (757 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

IttiLaurent

ReesGeraint

TsotsosJohn K

Disciplina

612.8/2

612.82

612.8233733

Soggetti

Attention

Neurobiology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contributors; Foreword: Neurobiology of Attention; Preface; A Brief and Selective History of Attention; A Tour of This Volume; SECTION I: FOUNDATIONS; CHAPTER 1: Computational Foundations for Attentive Processes; CHAPTER 2: Capacity Limits for Spatial Discrimination; CHAPTER 3: Directed Visual Attention and the Dynamic Control of Information Flow; CHAPTER 4: Selective Attention as an Optimal Computational Strategy; CHAPTER 5: Surprise: A Shortcut for Attention?; CHAPTER 6: A Heteromodal Large-Scale Network for Spatial Attention

CHAPTER 7: Parietal Mechanisms of Attentional Control: Locations, Features, and ObjectsCHAPTER 8: Visual Cortical Circuits and  Spatial Attention; CHAPTER 9: Psychopharmacology of Human Attention; CHAPTER 10: Neuropharmacology of Attention; CHAPTER 11: Identifying the Neural Systems of Top-Down Attentional Control: A Meta-analytic Approach; CHAPTER 12: Attention Capture: The Interplay of Expectations, Attention, and Awareness; CHAPTER 13: Change



Blindness; CHAPTER 14: Development of Covert Orienting in Young Infants; CHAPTER 15: Prior Entry; CHAPTER 16: Inhibition of Return

CHAPTER 17: Guidance of Visual Search by Preattentive InformationCHAPTER 18: The Top in Top-Down Attention; CHAPTER 19: Allocation of Attention in Three-Dimensional Space; CHAPTER 20: Covert Attention and Saccadic Eye Movements; CHAPTER 21: Prefrontal Selection and Control of Covert and Overt Orienting; CHAPTER 22: Dissociation of Selection from Saccade Programming; CHAPTER 23: Space- and Object-Based Attention; CHAPTER 24: Attention and Binding; CHAPTER 25: Top-Down Facilitation of Visual Object Recognition; CHAPTER 26: Spatial Processing of Environmental Representations

CHAPTER 27: Decision and AttentionCHAPTER 28: Visual Attention and Emotional Perception; CHAPTER 29: The Difference between Visual Attention and Awareness: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective; CHAPTER 30: Reaching Affects Saccade Trajectories; CHAPTER 31: The Premotor Theory of Attention; CHAPTER 32: Cross-Modal Consequences of Human Spatial Attention; CHAPTER 33: Attention and Scene Understanding; SECTION II: FUNCTIONS; CHAPTER 34: Visual Search and Popout in Infancy; CHAPTER 35: Attention in Conditioning; CHAPTER 36: Electrophysiology of Reflexive Attention

CHAPTER 37: Natural Scene Statistics and Salient Visual FeaturesCHAPTER 38: Salience of Feature Contrast; CHAPTER 39: Stimulus-Driven Guidance of Visual Attention in Natural Scenes; CHAPTER 40: Contextual Guidance of Visual Attention; CHAPTER 41: Gist of the Scene; CHAPTER 42: Temporal Orienting of Attention; CHAPTER 43: Visual Search: The Role of Memory for Rejected Distractors; CHAPTER 44: The Neuropsychology of Visual Feature Binding; CHAPTER 45: Visual Saliency and Spike Timing in the Ventral Visual Pathway

CHAPTER 46: Object Recognition in Cortex: Neural Mechanisms, and Possible Roles for Attention

Sommario/riassunto

A key property of neural processing in higher mammals is the ability to focus resources by selectively directing attention to relevant perceptions, thoughts or actions. Research into attention has grown rapidly over the past two decades, as new techniques have become available to study higher brain function in humans, non-human primates, and other mammals. Neurobiology of Attention is the first encyclopedic volume to summarize the latest developments in attention research.An authoritative collection of over 100 chapters organized into thematic sections provides both broad covera