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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Neumann, Odmar
• Sanders, A. F

Titel

Attention

Ort / Verlag

San Diego : Academic Press,

Erscheinungsjahr

1996

Link zum Volltext

• Elsevier Books AutoHoldings

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The German original is published under the title "Aufmerksamkeit" as v. 2 of the "Enzyklopd̃ie fr Psychologie."
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Front Cover; Handbook of Perception and Action: Attention; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1. Visual Attention; 1 The Start; 2 The Theory; 3 Further Developments; 4 A Model; References; Chapter 2. Visual Search; 1 Sensory Constraints; 2 Anatomical Constraints; 3 Information Processing Constraints; 4 Eye Movements and Conspicuity; 5 Eye Movements and Attention; 6 Patterns of Eye Movements in Visual Search; 7 Cognitive Models; 8 Optimal Scanning and Monitoring; 9 Search and Stress; 10 Discussion; References; Chapter 3. Auditory Attention
• 1 Auditory Attention: The Cocktail Party Solution2 Attention in a Single Auditory Stream; 3 Streaming, Attention and Auditory Illusions; 4 Epilogue; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 4. Dual-Task Performance; 1 Physically Incompatible Tasks; 2 Time-Sharing and Capacity-Sharing; 3 Multiple Processors and Multiple Resources; 4 Process Interactions; 5 Practice; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 5. Involuntary Attention; 1 A Taxonomy of the Phenomena; 2 Level Shifts and Involuntary Attention; 3 Rule Deviations and Involuntary Attending; 4 Concluding Remarks; Acknowledgement; References
• Chapter 6. Automatic and Controlled Information Processing: The Role of Attention in the Processing of Novelty1 Attention, Automatization and the Role of Practice; 2 Automatic Information Processing; 3 Failing to Integrate Unattended Messages; 4 Inattention and Automaticity: Some Conclusions; References; Chapter 7. Energetics and the Reaction Process: Running Threads Through Experimental Psychology; 1 Historical Origins; 2 Revived Views on Attention and the Rebirth of the RT Method; 3 Revised Views on Attention, Arousal and the Reaction Process
• 4 From Attentional Bottlenecks to the Allocation of Effort5 Cognitive-Energetic Relations: A Case Study; 6 Reculer Pour Mieux Sauter; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 8. Sustained Attention; 1 Introduction; 2 Toward a Taxonomy of Vigilance Tasks?; 3 Individual Differences: An Approach to Explaining Vigilance Performance; 4 Attention and Information Processing: An Approach to Explaining Vigilance Performance Using Event-Related Brain Potentials; 5 Arousal - An Indirect Approach to Explaining Vigilance Performance:
• 6 Arousal - A Direct Approach to Explaining Vigilance Performance: The Effects of Drugs7 Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 9. Brain Potential Analysis of Selective Attention; 1 ERPs and their Neural Bases; 2 The Selective Attention Paradigm; 3 Auditory Selective Attention; 4 Visual Selective Attention; 5 Bandwidth of Attentional Channels; 6 Divided Attention; 7 Multidimensional Selections; 8 Automatic Versus Controlled Processing; 9 Limitations of Selective Attention as Revealed by Measures of Motor Activation; 10 Discussion and Conclusions; References; Chapter 10. Theories of Attention
• 1 A Brief Historical Survey
• The Handbook of Perception and Action overviews state-of-the-art research in these two areas, while also stressing the functional relationships between them. The three-volume set will be useful toresearchers, technicians, graduate students, and final-year undergraduates in psychology, developmental psychology, speech and hearing, neuropsychology, neuroscience, and physiology.
• English