In this article, we challenge the usefulness of “attention” as a unitary construct and/or neural
system. We point out that the concept has too many meanings to justify a single term, and …

Survival can depend on the ability to change a current course of action to respond to
potentially advantageous or threatening stimuli. This" reorienting" response involves the …

An emerging class of theories concerning the functional structure of the brain takes the
reuse of neural circuitry for various cognitive purposes to be a central organizational …

Immediately following an event at a peripheral location there is facilitation for the processing
of other stimuli near that location. This is said to reflect a reflexive shift of attention towards …

The salience map is a crucial concept for many theories of visual attention. On this map,
each object in the scene competes for selection–the more conspicuous the object, the …

This volume traces development of the human brain from infancy through middle childhood
from the perspective of cognitive and affective neuroscience. We view the brain in terms of …

Attention is relatively easy to define subjectively as in tJre classical definition of William
James (1890) who said:" Everyone knows what attention is. It is tie taking possession of the …

This book is a succinct introduction to the orienting of attention. Richard Wright and
Lawrence Ward describe the covert orienting literature clearly and concisely, illustrating it …

From an operational perspective, attention is a matter of organizing multiple brain centres to
act in concert on the task at hand. Taking focal visual attention as an example, recent …

The authors propose that there are 2 different mechanisms whereby spatial cues capture
attention. The voluntary mechanism is the strategic allocation of perceptual resources to the …