Attention and Time
Description:... Attention and Time is the first book to address this fundamental topic, bringing together several intriguing and hitherto fragmented findings into a compelling and cohesive field of enquiry. The book contains thirty-one critical-review chapters from internationally recognized experts in the field, carefully organized into three stand-alone, yet extensively cross-referenced, themed sections. Each section focuses on distinct ways in which attention and time influence one another. These sections, each encompassing a range of methodologies from classical cognitive psychology to single-cell neurophysiology, provide functionally unifying frameworks to help guide the reader through the many various experimental and theoretical approaches adopted. Section One considers variations of attention across time, and explores how attentional allocation is limited by very short or very long intervals of time. Section Two describes several types of temporal illusion, illustrating how attention --
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