Attention in a Social World

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-979121-7
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 411 g

Reihe: Social Cognition and Social Neuroscience

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.

Zielgruppe

Researchers and students in social neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, and cognitive psychology interested in attention.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Posner

Posner, Michael I.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Biologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. The Attention System of the Human Brain

2: The Alerting Network

3. Orienting of Attention

4. Executive Network and Self-Regulation

5. Development of Attention Networks

6. Attention and Society

7. Concluding Remarks

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Posner, Michael I.
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.