Cognitive Psychology Arena

Attentional Capture

A Special Issue of Visual Cognition

• Edited by Bradley S. Gibson, Charles Folk, Jan Theeuwes, Alan Kingstone

The notion that certain mental or physical events can capture attention has been one of the most enduring topics in the study of attention owing...

Published April 16th 2008 by Psychology Press.

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Inhibitory After-Effects in Spatial Processing: Experimental and Theoretical Issues on Inhibition of Return

A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology

• Edited by Paolo Bartolomeo, Juan Lupiáñez

When responding to a suddenly appearing stimulus, we are slower and/or less accurate when the stimulus occurs at the same location of a previous event,...

Published October 5th 2006 by Psychology Press.

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Integrative Views on Dual-task Costs

A Special Issue of the European Journal of Cognitive Psychology

• Edited by Guido P.H Band, Pierre Jolicoeur

It is well known that the capacity for both simultaneous and rapid sequential information processing is limited. In the past two decades, at least four...

Published July 13th 2006 by Psychology Press.

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The Psychology of Attention

• By Elizabeth Styles

Research on attention has evolved dramatically in recent years. There are now many new ways of studying how we are able to select some aspects...

Published June 1st 2006 by Psychology Press.

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Attention, Perception and Memory

An Integrated Introduction

• By Elizabeth Styles

Although attention, perception and memory are identifiable components of the human cognitive system, this book argues that for a complete understanding of any of them...

Published February 10th 2005 by Psychology Press.

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Attention in Action

Advances from Cognitive Neuroscience

• Edited by Glyn W. Humphreys, M. Jane Riddoch

Over the past forty years much work has assessed how attention modulates perception, but relatively little work has evaluated the role of attention in action....

Published November 25th 2004 by Psychology Press.

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Attention

A Neuropsychological Approach

• By Antony Ward

Attention: A Neuropsychological Approach provides a fascinating overview of the neuropsychological aspects of attention, revealing how we select our information, divide our attention and control...

Published November 11th 2004 by Psychology Press.

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Attention, Genes and ADHD

• Edited by Florence Levy, David Hay

Recent advances in genetic methodology are providing important aetiological and developmental information to the growing literature on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and related conditions....

Published November 14th 2002 by Psychology Press.

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Applied Neuropsychology of Attention

Theory, Diagnosis and Rehabilitation

• Edited by Michel Leclercq, Peter Zimmermann

The concept of attention in academic psychology has been treated with varying degrees of importance over the years. From playing a key role in the...

Published April 4th 2002 by Psychology Press.

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Attention and Pattern Recognition

• By Nick Lund, Nick Lund

Whilst attention is a term commonly used in everyday life, for many years psychologists have struggled in their attempts to explain what it actually means....

Published April 26th 2001 by Routledge.

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