Until recently, the dominant view was that schizophrenia patients have limited, if any,
neuropsychological impairments, and those that are observed are only secondary to the …

Attention is a pivotal cognitive function and efforts to understand its properties and
operations are fundamental. Building upon the best known taxonomy of attention put forward …

What is attention? How does attention shape consciousness? In an approach that engages
with foundational topics in the philosophy of mind, the theory of action, psychology, and the …

What are the basic dimensions of temperament? How does temperament influence
children's relationships to their physical and social worlds--and their behavior and …

Objective: The Attention Network Test (ANT) is a tool used to assess the efficiency of the 3
attention networks—alerting, orienting, and executive control. The ANT has become popular …

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 …

In this study, attentional processing in relation to mindfulness meditation was investigated.
Since recent studies have suggested that mindfulness meditation may induce improvements …

This chapter considers relations between temperament and the development of
psychopathology. It describes findings on individual differences in temperament and …

Children aged 7–17years and adults aged 18–22years were tested on three aspects of
visual attention: the ability to distribute visual attention across the field to search for a target …

Our ability to efficiently process information and generate appropriate responses depends
on the processes collectively called cognitive control. Despite a considerable focus in the …