Attention, Selection, Awareness and Control
Alan D. Baddeley(Author)
Clarendon Press
Published on 1. September 1993
Book
Hardback
453 pages
978-0-19-852259-1 (ISBN)
Description
Donald Broadbent has made a major and lasting contribution to the field of applied psychology during his long career. This book brings together many other leaders in the field, who describe the impact of Broadbent's work on their own research, and the new developments which resulted. It is a collection of authoritative reviews as well as a tribute to one of the most significant researchers in experimental psychology.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
1 half-tone, 62 line drawings, bibliography, indices
ISBN-13
978-0-19-852259-1 (9780198522591)
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Persons
Content
Part 1 Perception - selection and attention: the perception of features and objects, Anne Treisman; on the output of a visual fixation, Andries Sanders; selection of input and goal in the control of behaviour, John Duncan; filtering and physiology in visual search - a convergence of behavioural and neurophysical measures, Peter McLeod and Jon Driver; objects, streams and threads of auditory attention, Dylan Jones. Part 2 Attentional control of complex tasks: designing for attention, Neville Moray; motor programs and musical performance, L. Henry Shaffer; working memory or working attention?; Alan Baddeley; supervisory control of action and thought selection, Tim Shallice and Paul Burgess; crystal quest - a search for the basis of maintenance of practised skills into old age, Patrick Rabbitt. Part 3 Conscious awareness: search for the unseen, Larry Weiskrantz; implicit learning - reflections and prospects, Dianne Berry; redefining automaticity - unconscious influences, awareness and control, Larry Jacoby et al; varieties of consciousness and levels of awareness in memory, Endel Tulving. Part 4 Attention, arousal and stress: viral illness and performance, Andrew Smith; cognitive-energetical control of mechanisms in the management of work demands and psychological health, G. Robert J. Hockey; individual differences in personality and motivation - "non-cognitive" determinants of cognitive performace, William Revelle; selective effects of emotion on information-processing, John D. Teasdale; interaction of arousal and selection in the posterior attention network, Michael I. Posner; self-report questionnaires in cognitive psychology - have they delivered the goods?, James Reason.