Cognitive Psychology Arena

Emotional States, Attention, and Working Memory

A Special Issue of Cognition & Emotion

• Edited by Nazanin Derakhshan, and Michael Eysenck.

Published February 2010

This Special Issue is concerned with the effects of three emotional states (positive affect; anxiety; and depression) on performance. More specifically, the contributors focus on the potential mediating effects of attention and of executive processes of working memory. The evidence discussed…
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Tutorials in Visual Cognition

• Edited by Veronika Coltheart.

Published January 2010

In the late-1980s, visual cognition was a small subfield of cognitive psychology, and the standard texts mainly discussed just iconic memory in their sections on visual cognition. In the subsequent two decades, and especially very recently, many remarkable new aspects of the processing of…
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Attentional Capture

A Special Issue of Visual Cognition

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

Published April 2008

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 to the importance of understanding how goal-directed and stimulus-driven processes interact in perception and cognition. Despite the clear theoretical and…
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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, and Juan Lupiáñez.

Published October 2006

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, as compared to when it appears in a new location. This phenomenon, often called Inhibition of Return (IOR), has fostered a huge amount of research…
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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, and Pierre Jolicoeur.

Published July 2006

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 different approaches for the investigation and explanation of dual-task interference have developed. Surprisingly, these developments have taken…
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The Psychology of Attention

• By Elizabeth Styles.

Published May 2006

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 for processing, whilst ignoring others, and how we are able to combine tasks, learn skills and make intentional actions. Attention is increasingly seen as a…
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Attention, Perception and Memory

An Integrated Introduction

• By Elizabeth Styles.

Published February 2005

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 it is necessary to appreciate the way they interact and depend on one another. Using close examination of experiments, studies of…
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Attention in Action

Advances from Cognitive Neuroscience

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

Published November 2004

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. This is despite the fact that recent research indicates that the relation between attention and action is a crucial factor in human…
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Attention

A Neuropsychological Approach

• By Antony Ward.

Published November 2004

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 our focus of interest. Through fully integrating cognitive neuropsychological perspectives on attention,…
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Attention, Genes and ADHD

• Edited by Florence Levy, and David Hay.

Published November 2002

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. Attention, Genes and ADHD is the first book to review and integrate both behaviour-genetic…
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