BookTimothy Hodgson, editor.
Summary: This volume covers a broad range of current research topics addressing the function of visuospatial attention and working memory. It discusses a variety of perspectives ranging from evolutionary and genetic underpinnings to neural substrates/computational processes and the connection between attention and working memory. Contributions address the topic at the molecular, system and evolutionary scales and will be of interest to a range of audiences from animal behaviour specialists, experimental psychologists to clinicians in the field of psychiatry and neurology.
Contents:
Part I Evolution and Development
The Evolution of Gaze Shifting Eye Movements
Visuospatial integration and hand-tool interaction in cognitive archaeology
Development of Visual-Spatial Attention
Variations in the beneficial effects of spatial structure and serial organization on working memory span in humans and other species
Part II Processes, mechanisms and models
Biasing allocations of attention via selective weighting of saliency signals: behavioral and neuroimaging evidence for the Dimension-Weighting Account
Active inference, novelty, and neglect
Prefrontal contributions to attention and working memory
Functions of memory across saccadic eye movements
What is memory-guided attention? How past experiences shape selective visuospatial attention in the present
Superstitious perception in humans and neural networks
Dynamic Protention: the architecture of real-time cognition for future events
Recent studies on the relationship between covert visuo-spatial attention, visual search and saccadic eye movements
Functional imaging of visuo-spatial attention in complex and naturalistic conditions
Part III Neuropsychology and Neuropsychiatry
Visuo-spatial attention and working memory in progressive supra-nuclear palsy
Attention and working memory in Alzheimers and Parkinsons disease
Mechanisms underlying visuospatial working memory impairments in schizophrenia
Dopamine and working memory: The impact of genetic variation, stress and implications for mental health
Eye movements in neuropsychological tasks.