Attention : philosophical and psychological essays

Mole, Christopher, 1979- (Added Author). Smithies, Declan. (Added Author). Wu, Wayne. (Added Author).

Summary: This volume presents the latest thinking on attention from the philosophers and psychologists who are working at the interface between these two disciplines.

Record details

ISBN: 0199877211
ISBN: 9780199877218
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xx, 347 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	A systems-neuroscience view of attention / Christian C. Ruff -- Attention and integration / Alan Allport -- The metaphysics of attention / Christopher Mole -- Covert spatial attention and saccade planning / Katherine M. Armstrong -- Attention as selection for action / Wayne Wu -- Multiple-object tracking: a serial attentional process? / Srimant P. Tripathy, Haluk Ogmen, and Sathyasri Narasimhan -- Attention as structuring of the stream of consciousness / Sebastian Watzl -- Is attention necessary and sufficient for consciousness? / Jesse J. Prinz -- Attention and iconic memory / Ian Phillips -- Attention without awareness: a brief review / Robert W. Kentridge -- Attention is rational-access consciousness / Declan Smithies -- Perceptual attention and the space of reasons / Johannes Roessler -- Visual attention fixes demonstrative reference by eliminating referential luck / Imogen Dickie -- Visual attention and the epistemic role of consciousness / John Campbell.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.