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Attention and Time (Hardcover)
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Attention and Time (Hardcover)
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Our ability to attend selectively to our surroundings - taking
notice of the things that matter, and ignoring those that don't -
is crucial if we are to negotiate the world around us in an
efficient manner. Several aspects of the temporal dimension turn
out to be critical in determining how we can put together and
select the events that are important to us as they themselves
unfold over time. For example, we often miss events that happen
while we are occupied perceiving or responding to another stimulus.
On the other hand, temporal regularity between events can also
greatly improve our perception. In addition, our perception of the
passage of time itself can also be distorted as while we are
performing actions or paying attention to different aspects of the
environment. Surprisingly, this fascinating and fundamental
interplay between ' attention' and 'time' has been relatively
neglected in the psychology and neuroscience literatures until very
recently.
Attention & Time is the first book to address this foundational
topic, bringing together several intriguing and hitherto fragmented
findings into a compelling and cohesive field of enquiry. The book
contains thirty-one critical-review chapters from internationally
recognised experts in the field, carefully organised into three
stand-alone, yet extensively cross-referenced, themed sections.
Each section focuses on distinct ways in which attention and time
influence one another. These sections, each encompassing a range of
methodologies from classical cognitive psychology to single-cell
neurophysiology, provide functionally unifying frameworks to help
guide the reader through the many various experimental and
theoretical approaches adopted. Section 1 considers variations of
attention across time, and explores how attentional allocation is
limited by very short or very long intervals of time. Section 2
describes several types of temporal illusion, illustrating how
attention can modulate the perception of the passage of time
itself. "A watched pot never boils" and, conversely, "time flies
when you're having fun" nicely capture the experimental observation
that the degree of attention allocated to stimulus timing
contributes to its subjective duration. Finally, Section 3 examines
how attention can be directed in time, to predictable or expected
moments in time, so as to optimise behaviour.
Bringing conceptually discrete, yet functionally related, fields of
temporal attention research together within a single volume, this
book provides a comprehensive overview that will be of value to the
interested novice in cognitive neuroscience, whilst also inspiring
experts in the field to make, perhaps previously overlooked, links
with their own field of research.
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