Attention and Associative Learning: From Brain to Behaviour

by Chris Mitchell and Mike Le Pelley

Attention and learning are two of the most important topics in contemporary cognitive psychology and behavioural neuroscience. Of even more interest is how the two interact. Meaningful stimuli and their meaningful effects are invariably embedded in a complex background of meaningless information. Yet, in order to learn about meaningful relationships between events, an organism needs to be able to extract the relevant from the irrelevant. The ability...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199550530
• ISBN13: 9780199550531
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"