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In the past two decades, attention has been one of the most investigated areas of research in perception and cognition. However, the literature on the field contains a bewildering array of findings, and empirical progress has not been matched by consensus on major theoretical issues. The Psychology of Attention presents a systematic review of the main lines of research on attention, the topics range from perception of threshold stimuli to memo...

This text, part of a set that offers selected examples of issues and theories from many subfields of cognitive science, focuses on visual cognition. It uses a case study approach, presenting research topics in some depth and relying on suggested readings to convey the breadth of views and results.

It's hard to conceive of a topic of more broad and personal interest than the study of the mind. In addition to its traditional investigation by the disciplines of psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience, the mind has also been a focus of study in the fields of philosophy, economics, anthropology, linguistics, computer science, molecular biology, education, and literature. In all these approaches, there is an almost universal fascination with...