1. Introduction. 2. Neural Underpinnings. 3. Under Construction. 4: I’m Getting Tired of This. 5. Same But Different. 6. One or Many? 7. Varieties of Visual Attention. 8. Your Attention Please. 9. Now You See it, Now You Don’t. 10. Looking without Seeing. 11. The Damaged Brain: Agnosias. 12. The Damaged Brain: Other Disorders. 13. Conclusion.
Biography
Jay Friedenberg is Professor and Chair of Psychology at Manhattan College. He has previously written textbooks on artificial intelligence, dynamical systems and cognitive science, and he has published articles on center estimation, symmetry perception and the perceived aesthetics of geometric forms.
"Friedenberg manages to compress quite a lot of thought provoking material into a modestly size book. There is enough general information here to grasp the key concepts and yet it does not suffer from a lack of detail. An educated reader who wants to learn this material on his or her own should have no trouble following along. Undergraduate and graduate students can also benefit from this text that is written in an engaging way, covering classic literature on visual cognition and consciousness as well as newer, exciting developments."
-Frederick Bonato, Ph.D., Saint Peter's College, USA
