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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828214503321

Titolo

Attention : philosophical and psychological essays / / edited by Christopher Mole, Declan Smithies, and Wayne Wu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-42350-2

9786613423504

0-19-987721-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 v.)

Classificazione

08.36

Altri autori (Persone)

MoleChristopher <1978->

SmithiesDeclan

WuWayne

Disciplina

153.7/33

Soggetti

Attention

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

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 A Systems-Neuroscience View of Attention -- 2 Attention and Integration -- 3 The Metaphysics of Attention -- 4 Covert Spatial Attention and Saccade Planning -- 5 Attention as Selection for Action -- 6 Multiple-Object Tracking: A Serial Attentional Process? -- 7 Attention as Structuring of the Stream of Consciousness -- 8 Is Attention Necessary and Sufficient for Consciousness? -- 9 Attention and Iconic Memory -- 10 Attention Without Awareness: A Brief Review -- 11 Attention Is Rational-Access Consciousness -- 12 Perceptual Attention and the Space of Reasons -- 13 Visual Attention Fixes Demonstrative Reference by Eliminating Referential Luck -- 14 Visual Attention and the Epistemic Role of Consciousness -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume presents the latest thinking on attention from the philosophers and psychologists who are working at the interface between these two disciplines.