1st Edition

Attention Selective Processes in Vision and Hearing

By Neville Moray Copyright 1969
234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages
by Routledge

The early years of modern experimental psychology were marked by a considerable amount of research on attention, and much work was carried out in the laboratories of Wundt, Titchener and Helmholtz. For various reasons, research on attention declined from 1920 until the 1950s. Under the early philosophy of behaviourism, attention became suspect as a ‘mentalistic’ concept. At the time of original... Read more

Editorial Foreword.  1. Attention Ancient and Modern  2. The Design, Analysis and Conceptual Framework of Experiments on Attention  3. A Review of Current Theories of Attention  4. Auditory Selection  5. Visual Selection  6. Cross-modal and Other Effects in Selective Perception  7. The Sharing of Attention Between Input and Output  8. The Time Taken to Switch Attention  9. Physiological Research on Attention Mechanisms  10. Conclusions and Theory.  Bibliography.  Indexes.

Biography

Neville Moray