Attention in a Social World

ISBN-13: 9780199791217 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 220 str.

Michael I. Posner

Opis

The study of attention is central to psychology. In this work, Michael Posner, a pioneer in attention research, presents the science of attention in a larger social context, which includes our ability to voluntarily choose and act upon an object of thought. The volume is based on fifty years of research involving behavioral, imaging, developmental, and genetic methods. It describes three brain networks of attention that carry out the functions of obtaining and maintaining the alert state, orienting to sensory events, and regulating responses. The book ties these brain networks to anatomy, connectivity, development, and socialization and includes material on pathologies that involve attentional networks, as well as their role in education and social interaction.

Recenzje

At last, a book on attention that considers what attention is, what attention does, what brain systems support and undertake attention process, along with how we develop, modify and lose those faculties throughout life... This excellent, inexpensive little book is jam-packed full of insightful applied, historic and current research in attention. It is relevant to anyone who wants to understand why and how we pay attention, how we develop our attention systems, and what might be awry in social, behaviousral and clinical settings. I will be recommending students to read this and have already asked for two copies for our library and encouraged several colleagues to have a look also.

O autorze

Michael Posner is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Oregon and Adjunct Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell, where he served as founding director of the Sackler Institute. Posner is well known for his work with Marcus Raichle on imaging the human brain during cognitive tasks. A volume Images of Mind resulted from that collaboration. He has worked on the anatomy, circuitry, development and genetics of three attentional networks underlying maintaining alertness, orienting to sensory events and voluntary control of thoughts and ideas. His methods for measuring these networks have been applied to a wide range of neurological, psychiatric and developmental disorders.