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Attention and information Processing in infants and Adults Perspectives From Human and Animal Research
368 Pages
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Psychology Press
368 Pages
by
Psychology Press
368 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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First published in 1991. The impetus for this book and the conference upon which it was based stemmed from the authors’ observation that the interrelated phenomena of attention and information processing were the focus of intensive theoretical analysis and empirical research in many different scientific disciplines. The goal of the conference upon which this volume is based was to bring together a... Read more
Preface, I. DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE ISSUES: HUMAN PERSPECTIVES, 1. Attention: The Heartbeat, the Blink, and the Brain, 2. Development of Sustained Visual Attention in the Human Infant, 3. Anticipatory Processes in Infants: Cardiac Components, II. DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE ISSUES: ANIMAL PERSPECTIVES, 4. Reflex Modification and the Analysis of Sensory Processing in Developmental and Comparative Research, 5. The Orienting Response as a Measure of Attention and Information Processing in the Developing Rat, 6. Stimulus Significance, Conditionability, and the Orienting Response in Rats, III. PHYSIOLOGICAL ISSUES, 7. Cardiac Orienting and Defensive Responses: Potential Origins in Autonomic Space, 8. Autonomic Regulation and Attention, IV. HUMAN INFORMATION-PROCESSING ISSUES, 9. Orienting, Habituation, and the Allocation of Processing Resources, 10. Orienting and Attention: Preferred Preattentive Processing of Potentially Phobic Stimuli, 11. The Orienting Response as an Index of Attentional Dysfunction in Schizophrenia, 12. Attention and Information Processing: A Psychophysiological Perspective, Author Index, Subject Index
Biography
Byron A. Campbell, Harlene Hayne, Rick Richardson Princeton University.
