Overview

Donald Broadbent has made a major and lasting contribution to the field of applied psychology during his long career. This book brings together many other leaders in the field, who describe the impact of Broadbent's work on their own research, and the new developments which resulted. It is a collection of authoritative reviews as well as a tribute to one of the most significant researchers in experimental psychology.

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Author:   Alan D. Baddeley ,  Lawrence Weiskrantz
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Clarendon Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.903kg
ISBN:  

9780198522591

ISBN 10:   0198522592
Pages:   453
Publication Date:   01 September 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Part 1 Perception - selection and attention: the perception of features and objects, Anne Treisman; on the output of a visual fixation, Andries Sanders; selection of input and goal in the control of behaviour, John Duncan; filtering and physiology in visual search - a convergence of behavioural and neurophysical measures, Peter McLeod and Jon Driver; objects, streams and threads of auditory attention, Dylan Jones. Part 2 Attentional control of complex tasks: designing for attention, Neville Moray; motor programs and musical performance, L. Henry Shaffer; working memory or working attention?; Alan Baddeley; supervisory control of action and thought selection, Tim Shallice and Paul Burgess; crystal quest - a search for the basis of maintenance of practised skills into old age, Patrick Rabbitt. Part 3 Conscious awareness: search for the unseen, Larry Weiskrantz; implicit learning - reflections and prospects, Dianne Berry; redefining automaticity - unconscious influences, awareness and control, Larry Jacoby et al; varieties of consciousness and levels of awareness in memory, Endel Tulving. Part 4 Attention, arousal and stress: viral illness and performance, Andrew Smith; cognitive-energetical control of mechanisms in the management of work demands and psychological health, G. Robert J. Hockey; individual differences in personality and motivation - ""non-cognitive"" determinants of cognitive performace, William Revelle; selective effects of emotion on information-processing, John D. Teasdale; interaction of arousal and selection in the posterior attention network, Michael I. Posner; self-report questionnaires in cognitive psychology - have they delivered the goods?, James Reason."

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