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Attention and Associative Learning - From Brain to Behaviour (Hardcover, New)
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Attention and Associative Learning - From Brain to Behaviour (Hardcover, New)
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Attention and learning are two of the most important topics in
contemporary cognitive psychology and behavioural neuroscience. Of
even more interest is how the two interact. Meaningful stimuli and
their meaningful effects are invariably embedded in a complex
background of meaningless information. Yet, in order to learn about
meaningful relationships between events, an organism needs to be
able to extract the relevant from the irrelevant. The ability to
direct attention selectively to some stimuli and away from others
is one fundamental mechanism by which this filtering of information
can occur. But what controls this selective attention? Why are
certain stimuli selected and others rejected? What are the neural
mechanisms underlying this ability? Are they the same in humans as
in other animals? And what are the consequences of damage to this
attentional system? These are the questions that this book aims to
answer.
The idea of an interaction between attention and learning has
experienced a huge surge of interest in recent years. Advances in
behavioural neuroscience have made it possible to investigate the
neural basis of attention mechanisms; advances in connectionist
modelling techniques have allowed us to implement and test more
complex computational models of the operation of these mechanisms;
and recent studies have implicated impairments in the ability to
deploy selective attention appropriately in disorders such as
schizophrenia and Parkinson's Disease.
This book brings together leading international learning and
attention researchers to provide both a comprehensive and
wide-ranging overview of the current state of knowledge of this
area as well as new perspectives and directions for the future.
There are coherent themes that run throughout the book, but there
are also, inevitably, fundamental disagreements between
contributors on the role of attention in learning. Together, the
views expressed in this book paint a picture of a vibrant and
exciting area of psychological research, and will be essential
reading for researchers of learning and attention.
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