Chapter 7 - The Attending Brain

Links and Media

Professor Geoff Boynton being interviewed on the neural basis of attention: http://www.gocognitive.net/interviews/geoff-boynton-fmri-studies-attention
Professor Marlene Behrmann being interviewed on disorders of attention and perception: http://www.gocognitive.net/interviews/marlene-behrmann-attention-and-perception-disorders
A demonstration of change blindness: http://www.gocognitive.net/demo/change-blindness
Two first-hand accounts of hemispatial neglect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4FhZs-m7hA
A lecture from Professor Jamie Ward, author of The Student’s Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience on “The Spatial Brain”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oev0jrP3yOo

An influential summary of the Feature Integration Theory and the processing shift between parallel versus serial mechanisms of attention: Treisman, A. (1988). Features and objects: The fourteenth Bartlett memorial lecture. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 40A, 201–237. http://explore.tandfonline.com/page/beh/students-guide-to-cognitive-neuroscience-related-articles/
An important experimental finding, using fMRI, to show that attention is comprised of distinct mechanisms with separable neural mechanisms: Corbetta, M., Kincade, J. M., Ollinger, J. M., McAvoy, M. P., & Shulman, G. L. (2000). Voluntary orienting is dissociated from target detection in human posterior parietal cortex. Nature Neuroscience, 3(3), 292–297.
A recent overview, drawing heavily on primate electrophysiology, on the neural mechanisms of attention and how this is linked to actions such as saccades: Bisley, J. W. & Goldberg, M. E. (2010). Attention, intention, and priority in the parietal lobe. In S. E. Hyman (Ed.), Annual Review of Neuroscience, 33, 1–21.