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Attention and Cognition: Current Issues and Recent Approaches book cover

1st Edition

Attention and Cognition Current Issues and Recent Approaches

Edited By Ramesh Kumar Mishra, Seema Prasad Copyright 2025
132 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

132 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

132 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India
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This volume explores the psychology of attention and discusses the various cognitive processes that determine what we pay attention to. Much of our conscious moments are spent interacting with visual objects that we attend to and integrate into our consciousness. This book examines how we navigate this complex world of real and virtual objects and provides a comprehensive overview of the... Read more

1. Introduction 2. Thinking about Attention: Successive Approximations to a Productive Taxonomy 3. Fractionating Selection History: Dissociable Components of Experience-Driven Attention 4. Attentional guidance and the priority map 5. Role of Consciousness in Distractor Avoidance 6. The functional role of the oculomotor system in spatial short term memory 7. Why psychology is not (yet) a science. Index

Biography

Ramesh Kumar Mishra is a Professor at the Centre for Neural and Cognitive Sciences, School of Medical Sciences, University of Hyderabad, India.

Seema Prasad is a postdoctoral fellow in the Cognitive Neurophysiology group, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, TU Dresden, Germany.

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