The Orienting Response in Information Processing

By Risto Näätänen, John Spinks, Heikki Lyytinen, et al.

This book is a testimony to Evgeny Nikolaevich Sokolov's years of work in developing knowledge in the areas of perception, information processing and attention, and to the research it has spawned. It presents a historical account of a research program, leading the reader toward a cognitive science approach to the study of perception and attention. An understanding of neuroscience and mathematical modeling are helpful prerequisites. The co-authors collected data on orienting, attention, and information processing in the brain using single-cell recordings, central, autonomic, cognitive, behavioral, and verbal measures. This commonality brought them together for a series of meetings which resulted in the production of this book. The book ends with a review of some of the co-authors studies that have developed from or in parallel with Sokolov's research. They investigate, in particular, the concepts of attention and anticipation using a psychophysiological methodology.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415652537
• ISBN13: 9780415652537
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"