Selective Attention in Vision

✍ Scribed by A. H. C. van der Heijden

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1991
Tongue: English
Leaves: 325
Series: International Library of Psychology
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Clarifies the complex concept of selective attention - how the brain is able to select information form the vast amount available to it - and provides a clear and explicit theory of central importance to psychologists.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures and tables......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 15
The approach......Page 16
The topic......Page 46
Single-item detection and recognition tasks with accuracy as the dependent variable......Page 79
Single-item detection and recognition tasks with latency as the dependent variable......Page 112
Multiple-item detection and recognition tasks with accuracy as the dependent variable......Page 146
Multiple-item detection and recognition tasks with latency as the dependent variable......Page 184
Information processing......Page 223
Attention, expectation and intention......Page 257
References......Page 298
Name index......Page 316
Subject index......Page 321

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