From Attention to Goal-Directed Behavior: Neurodynamical, Methodological and Clinical Trends

by Diego Cosmelli and Francisco Aboitiz

Book Overview

Attention is a key psychological construct in the understanding of human cognition, and the target of enormous efforts to elucidate its physiological mechanisms, as the wealth of literature-both primary and secondary-attests (for recent compilations see Itti, Rees, & Tsotsos, 2005; Paletta & Rome, 2008; Posner, 2004). But in addition to asking what attention actually is, decomposing and analyzing its varieties, or delimiting its neurobiological mechanisms...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3540705724
• ISBN13: 9783540705727
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"