Visual spatial attention : functions, influences and performance / Lana Haynes, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haynes, Lana, editor.

Series:

Psychology research progress series.

Psychology Research Progress

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Visual perception.

Attention.

Eye--Movements.

Eye.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (86 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Novinka, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Many events in our daily lives require that we allocate attentional resources towards relevant information in the environment. However, we are constantly presented with more information than we can possibly attend to at any given moment. Visual spatial attention is the prioritization of visual processing to a particular spatial region in one's environment, and is therefore an important component of attention (more broadly construed) and information-processing. Once a region of space has been selected by visual spatial attention, the objects and features within that region can be processed. In this book, Chapter One examines visual spatial attention and its functional role in a variety of cognitive tasks. Chapter Two reviews the different ways in which the various mechanisms of selective attention have been cortically and otherwise classified into low and high levels of processing and to disentangle some of the confusion that may have arisen as a result of inconsistent usage of terminology and concepts in the field. The last chapter discusses studies which use computer simulations to estimate the effect of noise correlation upon the performance benefit gained from cues.

Contents:

VISUAL SPATIAL ATTENTION: FUNCTIONS, INFLUENCES AND PERFORMANCE; VISUAL SPATIAL ATTENTION: FUNCTIONS, INFLUENCES AND PERFORMANCE; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; CONTENTS; PREFACE; Chapter 1: VISUAL SPATIAL ATTENTION: WHAT IT IS, HOW IT WORKS, AND WHAT IT DOES FOR US ; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; NEURAL ARCHITECTURE OF VISUAL SPATIAL ATTENTION; Neural Correlates of Bottom-Up and Top-Down Guidance of Attention; Spatial Mapping and Directed Attention; EYE MOVEMENTS AND SPATIAL ATTENTION; Acquisition of Information through the Eye; Saccadic Eye Movements

The Interaction of Eye Movements and Spatial AttentionThe Pre-Motor Theory of Attention; THE FUNCTIONAL ROLE OF VISUAL SPATIAL ATTENTION; Orienting; Visual Search; Gaze Control and Spatial Attention in Natural Vision; The Effects of Learning and Memory on Gaze Control; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 2: LOW-LEVEL VERSUS HIGH-LEVEL PROCESSING IN VISUAL ATTENTION ; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; Visual Selective Attention; Low-Level vs. High-Level Attention; VISUAL SEARCH; The Role of the Task; Memory Guided Attention; CUEING; Capture of Attention; Subliminal versus Supraliminal Cueing; CONCLUSION

REFERENCESChapter 3: ON THE INFLUENCE OF NOISE-CORRELATION UPON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF CUES ; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; METHODS; RESULTS; DISCUSSION; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-63485-307-5