Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention

by Posner, Michael I.

• ISBN13: 9781609189853
• ISBN10: 160918985X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-11-03
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

This authoritative reference provides a comprehensive examination of the nature and functions of attention and its relationship to broader cognitive processes. The editor and contributors are leading experts who review the breadth of current knowledge, including behavioral, neuroimaging, cellular, and genetic studies, as well as developmental and clinical research. Chapters are brief yet substantive, offering clear presentations of cutting-edge concepts, methods, and findings. The book addresses the role of attention deficits in psychological disorders and normal aging and considers the implications for intervention and prevention. New to this edition: significant updates and many new chapters reflecting major advances in the field important breakthroughs in neuroimaging and cognitive modeling chapters on the development of emotion regulation and temperament expanded section on disorders, including upto-date coverage of ADHD as well as chapters on psychopathy and autism chapters on cognitive training and rehabilitation.

Author Biography

Michael I. Posner, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Oregon and Adjunct Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, where he served as founding director of the Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology. Dr. Posner is well known for his work with Marcus Raichle on imaging the human brain during cognitive tasks; the book Images of Mind resulted from that collaboration. He has worked on the anatomy, circuitry, development, and genetics of three attentional networks underlying maintaining alertness, orienting to sensory events, and voluntary control of thoughts and ideas. Dr. Posner\u2019s methods for measuring these networks have been applied to a wide range of neurological, psychiatric, and developmental disorders. His research on the training of attention in young children and adults to understand the interaction of specific experience and genes in shaping attention is described in Educating the Human Brain, coauthored with Mary K. Rothbart. Dr. Posner has received numerous awards, including seven honorary degrees, election to the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, and the National Medal of Science.

Table of Contents

1. Progress in Attention Research, Michael I. Posner I. Cognitive Science 2. On the Modes and Domains of Attention, Raymond M. Klein and Michael A. Lawrence 3. Boolean Map Approach to Visual Attention, Liqiang Huang and Harold Pashler 4. Symbolic and Connectionist Models of Attention, Hongbin Wang, Xun Liu, and Jin Fan 5. Models of Visual Search: From Abstract Function to Biological Constraint, Glyn W. Humphreys and Eirini Mavritsaki 6. Inhibitory Mechanisms in the Attentional Networks: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Luis J. Fuentes, Ana B. Vivas, Linda K. Langley, Qi Chen, and Carmen Gonz\u00e1lez-Salinas 7. Dynamic Cognitive Control and Frontal–Cingulate Interactions, Cameron S. Carter and Marie K. Krug 8. Discrete Resource Limits in Attention and Working Memory, Edward F. Ester, Edward K. Vogel, and Edward Awh II. Imaging 9. Two Attentional Networks: Identification and Function within a Larger Cognitive Architecture, Gordon L. Shulman and Maurizio Corbetta 10. Clutter and Attention in Multivoxel Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Leila Reddy and Nancy Kanwisher 11. A Frontoparietal Attention System in Human and Monkey Brain: Constructing and Assembling the Fragments of Thought and Behavior, John Duncan and Tom Manly 12. Nervous Anticipation: Top-Down Biasing across Space and Time, Anna C. Nobre, Gustavo Rohenkohl, and Mark G. Stokes 13. Microstructural Properties of White Matter Tracts Are Linked to the Efficiency of Specific Attention Networks, Bruce D. McCandliss 14. Tracking the Allocation of Attention in Visual Scenes with Steady-State Evoked Potentials, S\u00f8ren K. Andersen, Matthias M. M\u00fcller, and Steven A. Hillyard III. Neuroscience 15. Using Nonhuman Primates to Study the Micro- and Macro-Dynamics of Neural Mechanisms of Attention, Geoffrey F. Woodman and Charles E. Schroeder 16. Top-Down Control of Attention by Rhythmic Neural Computations, Earl K. Miller and Timothy J. Buschman 17. Neural Mechanisms of Saccade Target Selection: Evidence for a Stage Theory of Attention and Action, Jeffrey D. Schall and Kirk G. Thompson 18. Neural Circuits Controlling Visual Attention, Tirin Moore, Brittany Burrows, Katherine M. Armstrong, Robert J. Schafer, and Mindy H. Chang 19. Attentional Modulation of the Firing Patterns of Hippocampal Neurons, David Clayton Rowland and Clifford George Kentros IV. Development 20. Resting State Studies on the Development of Control Systems, Damien A. Fair, Nico U.F. Dosenbach, Steven E. Petersen, and Bradley L. Schlaggar 21. Development of Error Detection, Andrea Berger, Chananel Buchman, and Tamar Green-Bleier 22. Attentional Control and Emotion Regulation in Early Development, Martha Ann Bell and Susan D. Calkins 23. Development of Temperament and Attention: Behavioral Genetic Approaches, Kirby Deater-Deckard and Zhe Wang V. Deficits 24. Typical and Atypical Development of Attention, B J. Casey and Megan Riddle 25. \u201cAbstraction of Mind\u201d: Attention in Autism, Jeanne Townsend, Brandon Keehn, and Marissa Westerfield ottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal"26. Cingulate–Frontal–Parietal Function in Health and Disease, George Bush 27. Understanding Attention through Evolutionary and Epidemiological Genetics: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder as an Extreme Phenotypic Variant, Mauricio Arcos-Burgos and Maximilian Muenke 28. Action Control in Times of Conflict: Analysis of Reaction Time Distributions in Healthy and Clinical Populations, K. Richard Ridderinkhof, Wery P. M. van den Wildenberg, and Scott A. Wylie 29. Early Selective Attention Abnormalities in Psychopathy: Implications for Self-Regulation, Joseph P. Newman and Arielle R. Baskin-Sommers 30. Attentional Impairments in Children with Chromosome 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome, Tony J. Simon and Steven J. Luck 31. Training the Brain: Nonpharmacological Approaches to Stimulating Cognitive Plasticity, Redmond G. O\u2019Connell and Ian H. Robertson 32. Training of Working Memory and Attention, Torkel Klingberg