To generate coherent behavior, the brain needs to attend selectively t o the many objects that are present in the environment, but how does t he brain know which objects 'belong together' and what sense informati on is most important? The subject of attentional mechanisms has a long history in cognitive psychology, but new developments in cognitive ne uroscience, and new insights into how attention and action are integra ted, have transformed the field. This book is the first to bring toget her leading researchers to discuss the these new experimental findings .

Over the past forty years much work has assessed how attention modulates perception, but relatively little work has evaluated the role of attention in action. This is despite the fact that recent research indicates that the relation between attention and action is a crucial factor in human performance. Attention in Action provides state-of-the-art discussion of the role of attention in action and of action in constraining attention. The research takes an interdisciplinary approach covering experimental studies of attention and action, neuropsychological studies of patients with...

First published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Drawing on research from a number of different disciplines, this book provides converging evidence as to how knowledge about different categories is represented in the brain, and how this knowledge develops.

Politicians, social administrators, economists, biographers and historians have shared the belief that the Charity Organisation Society effectively rationalised relief to the Victorian poor and illustrated the advantages of caring voluntarism over impersonal state handouts. It is now clear that in provincial England these impressions were illusory. The alleged sinful profligacy of other charitable bodies was persistently condemned by the Charity Organisation Society for fostering latant sin amongst the poor. By exposing how they failed in practice to satisfy their own prescriptions for...