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As Titchener pointed out more than one hundred years ago, attention is at the center of the psychological enterprise. Attention research investigates how voluntary control and subjective experience arise from and regulate our behavior. In recent years, attention has been one of the fastest growing of all fields within cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience. (Posner and Rothbart 2007)

• Introduction to attention

• Information processing models of attention

• Visual attention

• Auditory attention

• Detection theory

• Vigilance

• Selective attention

• Divided attention

• Attention and performance

• Automatic procession

• Attentional switching

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Contents 1 See also 2 Bibliography 3 Key Texts – Books 4 Additional material – Books 5 Key Texts – Papers 6 Additional material - Papers 7 External links

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• Cognitive psychology
• Executive functions

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• Posner,M.I. and Rothbart, M,K,(2007) Research on Attention Networks as a Model for the Integration of Psychological Science. Annual Review of Psychology

Vol. 58: 1-23 (doi:10.1146/annurev.psych.58.110405.085516)

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Attention
Aspects of attention
Absent-mindedness | Attention span | Attentional shift | Directed attention fatigue | Attention management | Attentional blink | Attentional bias | Attention economy | Attention and emotion | Attention optimization | Change blindness | Concentration |Dichotic listening | Distraction | Distractibility | Divided attention | Hyperfocus | Inattentional blindness | Mindfulness |Mind-wandering | Meditation | Salience | Selective attention | Selective inattention | Signal detection theory | Sustained attention | Vigilance | Visual search |
Developmental aspects of attention
centration | [[]] |
Neuroanatomy of attention
Attention versus memory in prefrontal cortex |Dorsal attention network | | Neural mechanisms | Ventral attention network | Intraparietal sulcus |
Neurochemistry of attention
Glutamatergic system  | [[]] |
Attention in clinical settings
Attention training | ADHD | ADHD contoversy | ADD | AADD | Centering | Distractability |Attention and aging | Hypervigilance | Hyperprosexia | Cognitive-shifting | Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy |
Attention in educational settings
Concentration |
Assessing attention
Benton | Continuous Performance Task | TOMM | Wechsler Memory Scale |
Treating attention problems
CBT | Psychotherapy |
Prominant workers in attention
Baddeley | Broadbent | [[]] | Treisman | Cave |
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