| Description |
ix, 166 pages : illustrations ; 26cm |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: Preattentive and Attentive Processing -- Spotlight and Zoom Lens Models of Attention -- Covert and Overt Visual Attention -- Exogenous and Endogenous Attention -- Object- and Space-based Attention -- ch. 8 Your Attention Please -- The Stroop Task -- The Flanker Task -- Salience -- Orienting -- ch. 9 Now You See It, Now You Don't -- Priming -- Masking -- ch. 10 Looking without Seeing -- Attentional Blink -- Repetition Blindness -- Change Blindness -- Inattentional Blindness -- ch. 11 The Damaged Brain: Agnosias -- Cerebral Achromatopsia -- Akinetopsia -- Apperceptive Agnosia -- Associative Agnosia -- Prosopagnosia -- Capgras Syndrome -- Anosognosia -- ch. 12 The Damaged Brain: Other Disorders -- Scotomas -- Blindsight -- Neglect -- Extinction -- Balint's Syndrome -- ch. 13 Conclusion -- Consciousness and Evolution -- The Dynamic Core Hypothesis -- General Properties of Consciousness -- Integrating Models -- How We do It: Overcoming Obstacles |
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Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Introduction -- Themes and Chapter Organization -- What Is Consciousness? -- What Is Attention? -- Framing the Problem -- A Scientific Approach to the Study of Consciousness -- ch. 2 Neural Underpinnings -- Structural Organization of the Visual System -- The Neuronal Basis of Conscious and Unconscious Vision -- Neural Synchrony -- The Neuronal Basis of Attention -- Problems with Studying the Neural Basis of Consciousness -- ch. 3 Under Construction -- The Blind Spot -- Saccadic Suppression -- Illusory Contours -- Filling-In -- Perceptual Completion -- ch. 4 I'm Getting Tired of This -- Color Aftereffects -- Motion Aftereffects -- Tilt Aftereffects -- ch. 5 Same but Different -- Binocular Rivalry -- Figure-Ground -- Multi-stability -- ch. 6 One or Many? -- Selective Attention -- Divided Attention -- Dorsal and Ventral Pathways -- Hemispheric Differences and Consciousness -- ch. 7 Varieties of Visual Attention -- |
| Summary |
Consciousness is perhaps one of the greatest mysteries in the universe. This ambitious book begins with a philosophical approach to conciousness, examing some key questions such as what is meant by the term 'conscious,' and how this applies to vision |
| Subject |
Cognitive psychology.
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Consciousness.
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| ISBN |
1848726198 (paperback) |
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9781848726192 (paperback) |
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