Chapter 6 Outline

Chapter 6 Outline

  • Introduction
  • Introductory Box The Cocktail Party Effect
  • The Concept of Attention
    • Global states, arousal, and attention
    • The selective nature of attention
  • Behavioral Studies of Attention Capacity and Selection
    • The level at which selection occurs
    • Endogenously versus exogenously driven selective attention
  • Neuroscience Approaches to Studying Attention
    • Studying the neural effects of attention on stimulus processing
    • Studying the control of attention in the brain
  • Neural Effects of Attention on Stimulus Processing: Auditory Spatial Attention
    • Electrophysiological studies of the effects of auditory spatial attention
    • Neuroimaging studies of the effects of auditory spatial attention
    • Animal studies of the effects of auditory spatial attention
    • The effects of auditory spatial attention on auditory feature processing
  • Neural Effects of Attention on Stimulus Processing: Visual Spatial Attention
    • Electrophysiological studies of the effects of visual spatial attention
    • Neuroimaging studies of the effects of visual spatial attention
    • Combining electrophysiological and neuroimaging studies of visual spatial attention
    • Animal studies of the effects of visual spatial attention
    • The effects of visual spatial attention on visual feature processing
  • Box 6A The Attentional Blink and Late Attentional Selection
  • Neural Effects of Attending to Nonspatial Stimulus Attributes
    • The neural effects of attention to nonspatial auditory features
    • The neural effects of attention to nonspatial visual features
    • The effects of visual attention to objects
  • Box 6B Attention-Related “Reentrant” Activity
  • Neural Effects of Attention across Sensory Modalities
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