The handbook of attention / edited by Jonathan M. Fawcett, Evan F. Risko, and Alan Kingstone.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fawcett, Jonathan M., editor.

Risko, Evan F., editor.

Kingstone, Alan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Attention.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (695 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Laboratory research on human attention has often been conducted under conditions that bear little resemblance to the complexity of our everyday lives. Although this research has yielded interesting discoveries, few scholars have truly connected these findings to natural experiences. This book bridges the gap between 'laboratory and life' by bringing together cutting-edge research using traditional methodologies with research that focuses on attention in everyday contexts. It offers definitive reviews by both established and rising research stars on foundational topics such as visual attention and cognitive control, underrepresented domains such as auditory and temporal attention, and emerging areas of investigation such as mind wandering and embodied attention. The contributors discuss a range of approaches and methodologies, including psychophysics, mental chronometry, stationary and mobile eye-tracking, and electrophysiological and functional brain imaging. Chapters on everyday attention consider such diverse activities as driving, shopping, reading, multitasking, and playing videogames. All chapters present their topics in the same overall format: historical context, current research, the possible integration of laboratory and real-world approaches, future directions, and key and outstanding issues"--MIT CogNet.

Contents:

Contents; Attention: From the Laboratory to the Real World and Back Again; I Attention in the Laboratory; 1 Controlling Spatial Attention: Lessons from the Lab and Implications for Everyday Life; 2 Visual Search; 3 Temporal Orienting of Attention; 4 What Laboratory Studies of Symbolic Spatial Cues Reveal about the Control of Attention in Everyday Life; 5 Auditory Selective Attention; 6 Crossmodal Attention: From the Laboratory to the Real World (and Back Again); 7 Task-Set Control and Task Switching; 8 Using Working Memory to Control Attentional Deployment to Items in Complex Scenes

9 Change Blindness and Inattentional Blindness10 Mind Wandering and Attention; 11 Scene Perception; 12 Eye Movements and Visual Attention during Reading; 13 Embodied Attention; 14 Action and Attention; 15 Social Attention; 16 Attention to Eyes in Face Perception; II Attention in the Real World; 17 Everyday Visual Attention; 18 Attention and Driving; 19 Serial versus Concurrent Multitasking: From Lab to Life; 20 Attention and Incidental Memory in Everyday Settings; 21 Eyewitness Memory; 22 Attention and Misdirection: How to Use Conjuring Experience to Study Attentional Processes

23 Action Video Games in the Spotlight: The Case of Attentional Control24 Stress and Attention; 25 Attention Research in Marketing: A Review of Eye-Tracking Studies; 26 Exploring Attention in the "Reel" World: Visual and Auditory Influences on Reactions to Wins and Near Misses in Multiline Slot Machine Play; 27 Attention in Educational Contexts: The Role of the Learning Task in Guiding Attention; 28 Visual Attention in Sports; Contributors; Reviewers; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262331890

0262331896

9780262331883

0262331888

OCLC:

931878317

Publisher Number:

40025553151