Glyn Humphreys, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham. John Duncan, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. Anne Treisman, Department of Psychology, Princeton University.
"Bringing together the attention-meriting work of two linked meetings held in November 1997, that of the Royal Society on 'Brain mechanisms of selective perception and action' and a Novartis Foundation session on 'The control of attention,' this volume of 18 papers branches into broad sections on: visual selective attention, attention and perceptual integration, spatial representation and attention, visual attention and action, and the control of attention. Following an introduction on the past contribution of psychology to formulating the research questions in this field and more recent physiological and theoretical developments in neuroscience, analyses explain how attention functions from single-cell to large-scale cortical network processing. Includes color plates of brain activity mapping by PET and MRI scans."--
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