Pressestimmen
"The book is well-organized and comprehensive in covering the essential material. The inclusion of human factors material is a strength that is not covered in other books... The book is a balanced survey which will be of value to graduate students or anyone wanting to enter the field and needing a broad overview." -- Steven Yantis 20030625 "My overall impression is that the authors have combined their expertise and experience in the classroom to provide a text that will clearly cover attention more completely and in a more coherent and less confusing manner than any other available text...this is the best available text on the psychology of attention at the advanced undergraduate level." -- Mark Faust 20030625 "This text represents a strong review of the empirical and theoretical developments in attention work." -- Tom Busey 20030625 "A nice overview of the 'classic' work on attention, with up-to-date consideration of the literature, usefully bringing together some more applied literatures in which attention is a central construct!The scholarship seems comprehensive and up-to-date, and the authors do a nice job of presenting research in a fair and neutral manner." -- Richard Carlson 20030625 "The chapters present the material at a level appropriate for a first course on attention. The focus on providing a comprehensive treatment of the highlights of a variety of different topics related to attention is a strength." -- Art Kramer 20030625 "The work highlights the important issues and major findings while giving sufficient details of experimental studies, models, and theories so that results and conclusions are easy to follow and evaluate. The collection is balanced, adaptable and pedagogical with brief chapter previews, summaries, highlighted key words etc., thus making it an interesting reading for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in psychology as well as important resource for researchers and practitioners." -- Deccan Herald
Kurzbeschreibung
Attention: Theory and Practice provides a balance between a readable overview of attention and an emphasis on how theories and paradigms for the study of attention have developed. The book highlights the important issues and major findings while giving sufficient details of experimental studies, models, and theories so that results and conclusions are easy to follow and evaluate. Rather than brushing over tricky technical details, the authors explain them clearly, giving readers the benefit of understanding the motivation for and techniques of the experiments in order to allow readers to think through results, models, and theories for themselves.<P>nbsp; <P>Attention is an accessible text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in psychology. The book is also an important resource for researchers and practitioners interested in gaining an overview of the field of attention.
