Attention in a Social World
1st Edition
Published on 19. January 2012
Book
Hardback
220 pages
978-0-19-979121-7 (ISBN)
Description
The study of attention is central to psychology. In this work, Michael Posner, a pioneer in attention research, presents the science of attention in a larger social context, which includes our ability to voluntarily choose and act upon an object of thought. The volume is based on fifty years of research involving behavioral, imaging, developmental, and genetic methods. It describes three brain networks of attention that carry out the functions of obtaining and maintaining the alert state, orienting to sensory events, and regulating responses. The book ties these brain networks to anatomy, connectivity, development, and socialization and includes material on pathologies that involve attentional networks, as well as their role in education and social interaction.
Reviews / Votes
Posner views attention as an organ system with its own functional anatomy, circuitry, and cellular structure. This approach promises to sketch out the evolutionary and developmental basis of a principle brain mechanism of voluntary control, thus paving the road toward an understanding of how genetics and culture shape control systems... For those familiar with Posners instrumental contributions, this little book may be old news, but this volume makes his revolutionary ideas and trailblazing science available to a wide and uninitiated readership...Posners exposition presents a delightful read and provides important insights and experimental sensibilities that many curious minds would appreciate. We recommend this book wholeheartedly. * Amir Raz and Rebecca Oksenhendler for PsycCritiques, July 2013 * At last, a book on attention that considers what attention is, what attention does, what brain systems support and undertake attention process, along with how we develop, modify and lose those faculties throughout life... This excellent, inexpensive little book is jam-packed full of insightful applied, historic and current research in attention. It is relevant to anyone who wants to understand why and how we pay attention, how we develop our attention systems, and what might be awry in social, behaviousral and clinical settings. I will be recommending students to read this and have already asked for two copies for our library and encouraged several colleagues to have a look also. * Psychology Learning and Teaching, August 2013 *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Researchers and students in social neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, and cognitive psychology interested in attention.
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
411 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-979121-7 (9780199791217)
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Person
Michael Posner is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Oregon and Adjunct Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell, where he served as founding director of the Sackler Institute. Posner is well known for his work with Marcus Raichle on imaging the human brain during cognitive tasks. A volume Images of Mind resulted from that collaboration. He has worked on the anatomy, circuitry, development and genetics of three attentional networks underlying maintaining alertness, orienting to sensory events and voluntary control of thoughts and ideas. His methods for measuring these networks have been applied to a wide range of neurological, psychiatric and developmental disorders.
Author
Professor Emeritus at the University of Oregon and Adjunct Professor at the Weill Medical College in New York (Sackler Institute)Professor Emeritus at the University of Oregon and Adjunct Professor at the Weill Medical College in New York (Sackler Institute), Weill Medical College in New York, Sackler Institute, Eugene, Oregon, USA
Content
Introduction ; 1. The Attention System of the Human Brain ; 2: The Alerting Network ; 3. Orienting of Attention ; 4. Executive Network and Self-Regulation ; 5. Development of Attention Networks ; 6. Attention and Society ; 7. Concluding Remarks ; Index