Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention A Developmental Perspective [Paperback]

This volume describes research and theory concerning the cognitive neuroscience of attention. Filling a key gap, it emphasizes developmental changes that occur in the brain-attention relationship in infants, children, and throughout the lifespan and reviews the literature on attention, development, and underlying neural systems in a comprehensive manner.

Special features include:
* a new model of the neural control of eye movements;
* a developmental perspective on the burgeoning literature on the cognitive neuroscience of attention;
* the integration of ideas, research, and theories across chapters within each section via summary and commentary essays; and
* a summary of the most recent work in the developmental cognitive neuroscience of attention by several of the leading researchers in this field.
Contents: Preface. Part I: Attention and Eye Movements.P.H. Schiller,The Neural Control of Visually Guided Eye Movements. D. Maurer, T.L. Lewis,Overt Orienting Toward Peripheral Stimuli: Normal Development and Underlying Mechanisms. M.H. Johnson, R.O, Gilmore, G. Csibra,Toward a Computational Model of the Development of Saccade Planning. J.E. Richards, S.K. Hunter,Attention and Eye Movement in Young Infants: Neural Control and Development. L. Hainline,Summary and Commentary: Eye Movements, Attention, and Development. Part II: Orienting to Locations and Objects.R. Rafal,The Neurology of Visual Orienting: A Pathological Disintegration of Development. B.M. Hood, J. Atkinson, O.J. Braddick,Selection-for-Action and the Development of Orienting and Visual Attention. G.C. Baylis,Visual Parsing and Object-Based Attention: A Developmental Perspective. M.A. Bell,Frontal Lobe Function During Infancy: Implications for the Development of Cognition and Attention.l#�