Attention

  • Harold Pashler

A paperback on attention has just been published that unfortunately arrived too late for inclusion in Stuart Sutherland's review on this page.

In Attention, Harold Pashler, the author of one of the books assessed by Sutherland, gathers together essays by 12 leading international researchers examining different facets of contemporary research in the subject. The volume is divided into two sections, one dealing with psychological research such as visual search, dual-task interference and attentional bottlenecks, and the other with modern approaches to neural-network modelling and the effects of brain damage on attention. The tutorial-style chapters make the book ideal for students. Psychology Press, £14.95.