Attention is a key psychological construct in the understanding of
human cognition, and the target of enormous efforts to elucidate
its physiological mechanisms, as the wealth of literature-both
primary and secondary-attests (for recent compilations see Itti,
Rees, & Tsotsos, 2005; Paletta & Rome, 2008; Posner, 2004).
But in addition to asking what attention actually is, decomposing
and analyzing its varieties, or delimiting its neurobiological
mechanisms and effects, in this volume we want to explore attention
somewhat differently. We believe that a full-fledged theory of
attention must consider its workings in the context of motivated,
goal-directed, and environmentally constrained organisms. That
attention is related to goal-directed behavior is not news. What
the contri- tions to this volume do suggest, however, is the
existence of fundamental links between attention and two key
processes that are crucial for adapted conduct: go- directed
behavior and cognitive control. Importantly, they show that these
relations can be explored at multiple levels, including
neurodynamical, neurochemical, evo- tionary, and clinical aspects,
and that in doing so multiple methodological challenges arise that
are worth considering and pursuing. The reader will find here,
therefore, a selection of contributions that range from basic
mechanisms of attention at the n- ronal level to developmental
aspects of cognitive control and its impairments. Another trend
that will become evident is that, in different ways, the authors
stress the need to understand these issues as they unfold in
natural behavior (both healthy and pathological), thus arguing for
a more ecological approach to these questions.
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