Attention and Brain Function

ISBN-13: 9781138596924 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 512 str.

Risto Naatanen

Opis

Originally published in 1992, this book presents original psychophysiological research based on computerized techniques of recording and evaluating event-related brain potentials.

Spis treści

Foreword.  Preface.  1. Introduction: What is Attention?  2. Attention and Automaticity in Information Processing  3. Measurement of Brain Activity Underlying Information Processing  4. Event-Related Potentials and Automatic Information Processing  5. Magnetoencephalography (MEG) and Automatic Processing  6. Attention and Event-Related Potentials  7. MEG Studies of Attention  8. Regional Cerebral Blood-Flow (rCBF) and Metabolic Studies of Selective Attention  9. Concluding Discussion.  References.  Author Index.  Subject Index.

O autorze

Risto Kalervo Näätänen is a psychological scientist, pioneer in the field of cognitive neuroscience, and known worldwide as one of the discoverers of the electrophysiological mismatch negativity. He has been a much-cited social scientist and one of the few individuals appointed permanent Academy Professor of the Academy of Finland. He retired in 2007, retaining a title of Academy Professor emeritus of the Academy of Finland. Since 2007, he has been a professor at the University of Tartu.