Attention: From Theory to Practice

by Arthur F. Kramer, Douglas A. Wiegmann, Alex Kirlik

The study of attention in the laboratory has been crucial to understanding the mechanisms that support several different facets of attentional processing: Our ability to both divide attention among multiple tasks and stimuli, and selectively focus it on task-relevant information, while ignoring distracting task-irrelevant information, as well as how top-down and bottom-up factors influence the way that attention is directed within and across modalities...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195305728
• ISBN13: 9780195305722
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 10.1"