Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention: A Developmental Perspective

by Richards; John E.

• ISBN13: 9780805824094
• ISBN10: 080582409X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-04-01
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

This volume describes research and theory concerning the cognitive neuroscience of attention. Filling a key gap, it emphasizes developmental changes that occur in the brain-attention relationship in infants, children, and throughout the lifespan and reviews the literature on attention, development, and underlying neural systems in a comprehensive manner. Special features include: * a new model of the neural control of eye movements; * a developmental perspective on the burgeoning literature on the cognitive neuroscience of attention; * the integration of ideas, research, and theories across chapters within each section via summary and commentary essays; and * a summary of the most recent work in the developmental cognitive neuroscience of attention by several of the leading researchers in this field.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
PART I: ATTENTION AND EYE MOVEMENTS	3	(178)
1 The Neural Control of Visually Guided Eye Movements	3	(48)
Peter H. Schiller
2 Overt Orienting Toward Peripheral Stimuli: Normal Development and Underlying Mechanisms	51	(52)
Daphne Maurer
Terri L. Lewis
3 Toward a Computational Model of the Development of Saccade Planning	103	(28)
Mark H. Johnson
Rick O. Gilmore
Gergely Csibra
4 Attention and Eye Movement in Young Infants: Neural Control and Development	131	(32)
John E. Richards
Sharon K. Hunter
5 Summary and Commentary: Eye Movements, Attention and Development	163	(18)
Louise Hainline
PART II: ORIENTING TO LOCATIONS AND OBJECTS	181	(146)
6 The Neurology of Visual Orienting: A Pathological Disintegration of Development	181	(38)
Robert Rafal
7 Selection-for-Action and the Development of Orienting and Visual Attention	219	(32)
Bruce M. Hood
Janette Atkinson
Oliver J. Braddick
8 Visual Parsing and Object-Based Attention: A Developmental Perspective	251	(36)
Gordon C. Baylis
9 Frontal Lobe Function During Infancy: Implications for the Development of Cognition and Attention	287	(30)
Martha Ann Bell
10 Summary and Commentary: Developing Attentional Skills	317	(10)
Michael I. Posner
Mary K. Rothbart
PART III: ATTENTION, MEMORY, AND LIFE-SPAN CHANGES	327	(100)
11 A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective on the Relation Between Attention and Memory Development	327	(36)
Charles A. Nelson
Dianne Dukette
12 A Cognitive Neuroscience Approach to Individual Differences in Infant Cognition	363	(30)
John Colombo
Jeri S. Janowsky
13 Selective Attention Over the Life Span: Behavioral Measures	393	(26)
James T. Enns
Darlene A. Brodeur
Lana M. Trick
14 Summary and Commentary. Selective Attention: Its Measurement in a Developmental Framework	419	(8)
Holly A. Ruff
Author Index	427	(18)
Subject Index	445