The Oxford Handbook of Attention

by Nobre, Kia; Kastner, Sabine

• ISBN13: 9780199675111
• ISBN10: 0199675112
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-03-09
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

During the last three decades, there have been enormous advances in our understanding of the neural mechanisms of selective attention at the network as well as the cellular level.

The Oxford Handbook of Attention brings together the different research areas that constitute contemporary attention research into one comprehensive and authoritative volume. In 40 chapters, it covers the most important aspects of attention research from the areas of cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, human and animal neuroscience, computational modelling, and philosophy.

The book is divided into 4 main sections. Following an introduction from Michael Posner, the books starts by looking at theoretical models of attention. The next two sections are dedicated to spatial attention and non-spatial attention respectively. Within section 4, the authors consider the interactions between attention and other psychological domains. The last two sections focus on attention-related disorders, and finally, on computational models of attention.

Aimed at both scholars and students, the Oxford Handbook of Attention provides a concise and state-of-the-art review of the current literature in this field.

Author Biography

Kia Nobre, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Oxford,Sabine Kastner, Professor of Psychology, Princeton University

Anna Christina (Kia) Nobre is Tutorial Fellow in Experimental Psychology at New College, Oxford and Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oxford, where she heads the Brain and Cognition Laboratory in the Department of Experimental Psychology. She was educated at the Escola Americana do Rio de Janeiro (EARJ) and Williams College. She received her M.Phil, MSc and PhD (1992) from Yale University for her research on intracranial as well as non-invasive electrophysiological studies of human cognition. During her postdoctoral research at Yale, and Harvard (1992-1994), she was involved in some of the first brain-imaging studies of cognitive functions in the human brain. Prior to her current appointment, she was McDonnell Pew Lecturer in Cognitive Neuroscience and the Astor and Todd Bird Junior Research Fellow at New College (1994-1996).

Sabine Kastner earned an M.D. degree from the Heinrich-Heine University of Duesseldorf (Germany) and received a PHD degree in neurophysiology from the Georg-August University, Goettingen (Germany) after studying neural correlates of color vision with the late Otto Creutzfeldt at the Max-Planck-Institute of Biophysical Chemistry. During a first postdoc at the same Institute Dr. Kastner became interested in visual attention research while studying neural correlates of parallel and serial visual search. In 1996, she joined Leslie Ungerleider's and Robert Desimone's lab at the NIMH in Bethesda to receive training in human neuroimaging. In a series of influential studies that provided a foundation for the neural basis of human visual attention, she identified mechanisms of selective attention using functional magnetic resonance imaging operating in the human brain similar to those known from monkey physiology. She continued this line of research after joining the faculty at Princeton in 2000.

Table of Contents

Part A: Introduction
1. Current landscape and historical context, Michael Posner
Part B: Theoretical Models of Attention
2. Feature integration and guided search, Jeremy Wolfe
3. Perceptual/Executive load theory, Polly Dalton and Nilli Lavie
4. A multi-level account of selective attention, Sabine Kastner and John Serences
5. Large-scale network model of control, Marsel Mesulam and Professor Anna Christina Nobre
6. Multiple-demand network and adaptive coding, Mark Stokes and John Duncan
Part C: Spatial Attention
7. Spatial covert attention: Perceptual Modulation, Marisa Carrasco
8. Spatial orienting and attentional capture, Jan Theeuwes
9. Neural systems of spatial attention (fMRI), Diane Beck and Sabine Kastner
10. The time course of spatial attention: Insights from event-related brain potentials, Martin Eimer
11. Neuronal Mechanisms of Spatial Attention in Visual Cerebral Cortex, Marlene Cohen and John Maunsell
12. Cellular mechanisms of attentional control: Frontal, Jacqueline Gottlieb
13. Neuronal mechanisms of attentional control: Frontal cortex, Kelsey L. Clark, Behrad Noudoost, and Robert J. Schafer and Professor Tirin Moore
14. Neural mechanisms of Spatial Attention in the Visual Thalamus, Yuri B. Saalmann and Sabine Kastner
15. Attentional Functions of the Superior Colliculus, Richard J. Krauzlis
16. Orienting attention: a crossmodal perspective, Charles Spence
17. Neuronal Dynamics and the Mechanistic Bases of Selective Attention, Charles E. Schroeder, Jose L. Herrero and Saskia Haegens
18. The neuropharmacology of attention, Trevor Robbins
19. Developing attention and self-regulation in childhood, Michael Posner
Part D: Non-spatial Attention
20. Feature- and object-based attentional modulation in the human visual system, Miranda Scolari, Edward F. Ester, and John Serences
21. Object- and feature-based attention: monkey physiology, Stefan Treue
22. The Role of Brain Oscillations In The Temporal Limits of Attention, Kimron Shapiro and Simon Hanslmayr
23. Dynamic Attention, Patrick Cavanagh, Lorella Battelli, and Alex O. Holcombe
24. Temporal orienting, Anna Christina Nobre
Part E: Interactions between Attention and Other Psychological Domains
25. Attention, Motivation, and Emotion, Luiz Pessoa
26. Attention and executive functions
27. Neural mechanisms for the executive control of attention, Earl K. Miller and Timothy J. Buschman
28. Memory and Attention, Brice A. Kuhl and Marvin M. Chun
29. Attention and decision-making, Christopher Summerfield and Tobias Egner
30. Attention and action, Heiner Deubel
Part F: Attention-related Disorders
31. Attention and awareness, Geraint Rees
32. Attention and Aging, Theodore P. Zanto & Adam Gazzaley
33. Unilateral Spatial Neglect, Guiseppe Vallar
34. Neurological disorders of attention, Sanjay Manohar, Valerie Bonnelle and Masud Husain
35. Balint's syndrome and the Study of Attention, Lynn C. Robertson
36. Rehabilitation of Attention Functions, Ian H. Robertson and Redmond G O'Connell
Part G: Computational Models
37. Theory of visual attention, Claus Bundesen and Thomas Habekost
38. Bottom up and contextual effects, Laurent Itti and Ali Borji
39. Bayesian models, Angela Yu
Part H: Conclusions
40. Outlook and Future Directions, Anna Christina Nobre and Sabine Kastner