Visual Selective Attention
Visual Selective Attention

Author: Claus Bundesen

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780863779220

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This special issue of Visual Cognition features empirical and theoretical contributions by leading research scholars in the field. The volume begins with a general introduction and an authoritative review of work on spatial attention in the flankers task. Next, a series of empirical articles reports important new findings on visual selection by spatial location. A second section contrasts by presenting recent empirical findings on visual selection by other criteria. Finally, four articles present major theoretical statements on aspects of visual attention. As a whole, the issue forms a substantial contribution to the literature on visual selective attention.

Mechanisms of Animal Discrimination Learning
Mechanisms of Animal Discrimination Learning

Author: N. S. Sutherland

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2013-10-22

Total Pages: 574

ISBN-13: 1483258246

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Mechanisms of Animal Discrimination Learning provides a review of the field of animal discrimination learning, with discussions into other areas such as generalization, partial reinforcement, and some aspects of comparative psychology. This book elaborates the origins of continuity-noncontinuity controversy, analysis of attentional learning, Lashley and Wade's account of generalization, and evidence for a two-process analysis of the ORE. The reversal and nonreversal shifts, response unit hypothesis, inconsistent reinforcement and extinction of choice behavior, and aims and problems of comparative psychology are likewise described This text likewise covers the Zeaman and House model, Lovejoy's Model III, determinants of generalization gradients, cognitive dissonance hypothesis, and theoretical relevance of comparative psychology. This publication is a good source for biologists and researchers concerned with animal discrimination learning.

Selective Attention in Vision
Selective Attention in Vision

Author: A. H. C. van der Heijden

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 1134926979

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Clarifies the complex concept of selective attention - how the brain is able to select information form the vast amount available to it - and provides a clear and explicit theory of central importance to psychologists.