Attention and Perception: 40 reviews, 40 views
Attention and Perception: 40 reviews, 40 views
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注意力和感知:40 条评论,40 次浏览
DOI:
10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.09.001
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发表时间:
2019
影响因子:
5.9
通讯作者:
Shomstein, Sarah
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作者:
Geng, Joy J.;Leber, Andrew B.;Shomstein, Sarah
We are pleased to present this special issue on Attention and Perception, which covers some of the newest and most exciting developments in the field. Although studies of attention were amongst the earliest experimental investigations focused on uncovering psychological mechanisms ((Helmholtz, 1896) cited in (Carrasco, 2011; Nakayama & Mackeben, 1989)), the field has expanded considerably over the decades. This expansion reflects the many ways in which the mechanisms of attention are central to perception and cognition. However, it has been a mixed blessing. On the one hand, it speaks to the rich contribution of attentional mechanisms in information processing. On the other hand, it has led to a state in which the word “attention” has come to mean different things to different subfields. In this special issue, we present 40 articles that illustrate the breadth of research in which attention is thought to play a critical role.We approached this issue with two major purposes. First, for those who are new to the study of attention, this issue will introduce recent approaches to studying this central cognitive function that showcase the sophisticated convergent methodologies that can be used for this line of inquiry. Second, for those who are expert in this field, the breadth of articles in this issue will offer new, interesting, and provocative ideas for future research. Below we describe clusters of these reviews and highlight the original bedrock topics in attention from which they developed. We believe that these reviews reflect the extent of methodological practices and current state of the art for various attentional mechanisms and as such serves as a catalogue for the scope of attentional processing.