Attention, Space, and Action Studies in Cognitive Neuroscience

by Humphreys, Glyn W.; Duncan, John; Treisman, Anne

• ISBN13: 9780198524687
• ISBN10: 0198524684
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-18
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

To generate coherent behavior, the brain needs to attend selectively to the many objects that are present in the environment, but this poses several questions. How does the brain know which objects 'belong together'? How does the information from different senses get combined? How does this help to plan and carry out actions? The subject of attentional mechanisms has a long history in cognitive psychology, as it is the key to making sense of the visual world. However, new developments in cognitive neuroscience, and greater understanding of how attention and action are integrated, have transformed the field. This book is the first to bring together leading researchers to discuss the convergence of experimental findings in the following areas: visual selective attention, attention and perceptual integration, spatial representation and attention, visual attention and action, and control of attention. Attention, Space, and Action provides a unique combination of perspectives that will appeal to students and researchers from psychology, neuropsychology, neurophysiology, and neuroanatomy.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	ix
Introduction	1	(10)
Glyn W. Humphreys
John Duncan
Anne Treisman
Section 1 Visual selective attention	11	(78)
Visual attention mediated by biased competition in extrastriate visual cortex	13	(18)
Robert Desimone
Sensory gain control (amplification) as a mechanism of selective attention: electrophysiological and neuroimaging evidence	31	(23)
Steven A. Hillyard
Edward K. Vogel
Steven J. Luck
A computational theory of visual attention	54	(18)
Claus Bundesen
How do we select perceptions and actions? Human brain imaging studies	72	(17)
Geraint Rees
Christopher D. Frith
Section 2 Attention and perceptual integration	89	(62)
Feature binding, attention and object perception	91	(21)
Anne Treisman
Converging levels of analysis in the cognitive neuroscience of visual attention	112	(18)
John Duncan
Cross-modal links in spatial attention	130	(21)
Jon Driver
Charles Spence
Section 3 Spatial representation and attention	151	(48)
Place cells, navigational accuracy, and the human hippocampus	153	(12)
John O'Keefe
Neil Burgess
James G. Donnett
Kathryn J. Jeffery
Eleanor A. Maguire
Neural representation of objects in space: a dual coding account	165	(18)
Glyn W. Humphreys
Human cortical mechanisms of visual attention during orienting and search	183	(16)
Maurizio Corbetta
Gordon L. Shulman
Section 4 Visual attention and action	199	(50)
Neural coding of 3D features of objects for hand action in the parietal cortex of the monkey	201	(16)
Hideo Sakata
Masato Taira
Makoto Kusunoki
Akira Murata
Yuji Tanaka
Ken-ichiro Tsutsui
Neuropsychological studies of perception and visuomotor control	217	(15)
A.D. Milner
Action-based mechanisms of attention	232	(17)
Steven P. Tipper
Louise A. Howard
George Houghton
Section 5 The control of attention	249	(84)
Prefrontal cortex and the neural basis of executive functions	251	(22)
Earl K. Miller
Task-switching: positive and negative priming of task-set	273	(24)
Alan Allport
Glenn Wylie
Sustained attention deficits in time and space	297	(14)
Ian H. Robertson
Tom Manly
Interaction between perception and action systems: a model for selective action	311	(22)
Robert Ward
Index	333