Attention and Orienting - Sensory and Motivational Processes (Hardcover)

Orienting is the gateway to attention, the first step in processing stimulus information. This volume examines these initial stages of information intake, focusing on the sensory and motivational mechanisms that determine such phenomena as stimulus selection and inhibition, habituation, pre-attentive processing, and expectancy. Psychophysiological methods are emphasized throughout. The contributors consider analyses based on cardiovascular and electrodermal changes, reflex reactions, and neural events in the cortex and subcortex.
Stimulated by a conference lauding Frances Graham -- held before and during a recent meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, the book presents current theory and research by an international cadre of outstanding investigators. A major researcher and theorist in the field of attention for more than three decades, Dr. Graham contributes an Afterword to the present volume which is both a consideration of the work which has gone before, and a new, original theory paper on preattentive processing and attention.

General

Imprint:	Psychology Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 1997
First published:	1997
Editors:	Peter J. Lang • Robert F. Simons • Marie Balaban • Robert Simons
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 36mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	510
ISBN-13:	978-0-8058-2089-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Physiological & neuro-psychology Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > Perception Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Neurosciences
LSN:	0-8058-2089-2
Barcode:	9780805820898

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