Paying attention is something we are all familiar with and often take for granted. But the nature of the operations involved in paying attention is one of the most profound mysteries of the brain. In recent years, many questions have been asked about attentional processing: Why is our capacity for paying attention usually limited to a small number of events at the same time? Why are we sometimes easily distracted while trying to focus our attention on a task? Why is it that visually searching for some things can be harder ...
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Paying attention is something we are all familiar with and often take for granted. But the nature of the operations involved in paying attention is one of the most profound mysteries of the brain. In recent years, many questions have been asked about attentional processing: Why is our capacity for paying attention usually limited to a small number of events at the same time? Why are we sometimes easily distracted while trying to focus our attention on a task? Why is it that visually searching for some things can be harder than searching for others? Why does practice make perfect? What happens in our brains when we pay attention? Only a few years ago, these questions went unanswered. But recent scientific breakthroughs are beginning to explain how attentional processing occurs. And the picture that is emerging is fascinating. This book contains a rich, interdisciplinary collection of articles by some of the pioneers of contemporary research on attention. Central themes include how attention is moved within the visual field; attention's role during visual search, and the inhibition of these search processes; how attentional processing changes as continued practice leads to automatic performance; how visual and auditory attentional processing may be linked; recent advances in functional neuro-imaging and how they have been used to study the brain's attentional network; and how attentional capacity develops in infants. This book is an essential addition to the collection of anyone interested in what it means to pay attention and how the braid makes visual attention possible.
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