The psychology of attention
In the past two decades, attention has been one of the most investigated areas of research in perception and cognition. However, the literature on the field contains a bewildering array of findings, and empirical progress has not been matched by consensus on major theoretical issues. The Psychology...
| Main Author: | Pashler, Harold E. |
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| Other Authors: | EBSCOhost. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
[1998]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xiv, 494 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series: |
Bradford book.
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| Summary: |
In the past two decades, attention has been one of the most investigated areas of research in perception and cognition. However, the literature on the field contains a bewildering array of findings, and empirical progress has not been matched by consensus on major theoretical issues. The Psychology of Attention presents a systematic review of the main lines of research on attention; the topics range from perception of threshold stimuli to memory storage and decision making. The book develops empirical generalizations about the major issues and suggests possible underlying theoretical principles. Pashler argues that widely assumed notions of processing resources and automaticity are of limited value in understanding human information processing. He proposes a central bottleneck for decision making and memory retrieval, and describes evidence that distinguishes this limitation from perceptual limitations and limited-capacity short-term memory. |
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| Item Description: |
"A Bradford book." Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-471) and index. 1. Introduction -- 2. Selective attention -- 3. Divided attention -- 4. Attentional set -- 5. Capacity and selection : theorizing about attention -- 6. Central processing limitations in sensorimotor tasks -- 7. Attention and memory -- 8. Automaticity, effort, and control. In the past two decades, attention has been one of the most investigated areas of research in perception and cognition. However, the literature on the field contains a bewildering array of findings, and empirical progress has not been matched by consensus on major theoretical issues. The Psychology of Attention presents a systematic review of the main lines of research on attention; the topics range from perception of threshold stimuli to memory storage and decision making. The book develops empirical generalizations about the major issues and suggests possible underlying theoretical principles. Pashler argues that widely assumed notions of processing resources and automaticity are of limited value in understanding human information processing. He proposes a central bottleneck for decision making and memory retrieval, and describes evidence that distinguishes this limitation from perceptual limitations and limited-capacity short-term memory. English. Colorado Mountain College - E-book Collection / Ebsco. Colorado Mountain College - E-book Collection / Ebsco Academic. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xiv, 494 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-471) and index. |
| ISBN: |
0585003106 9780585003108 0262161656 9780262161657 9780262281294 0262281295 9780203016435 0203016432 9780863774652 0863774652 9780262661560 026266156X |