Attention has been studied in cognitive psychology for more than half a century, but until recently it was largely neglected in philosophy. Now, philosophers of mind increasingly recognize that attention has an important role to play in our theories of consciousness and of cognition. At the same time, several recent developments in psychology have led psychologists to foundatio...
Attention has been studied in cognitive psychology for more than half a century, but until recently it was largely neglected in philosophy. Now, philosophers of mind increasingly recognize that attention has an important role to play in our theories of consciousness and of cognition. At the same time, several recent developments in psychology have led psychologists to foundational questions about the nature of attention and its implementation in the brain. As a result there has been a convergence of interest in fundamental questions about attention. This volume presents the latest thinking from the philosophers and psychologists who are working at the interface between these two disciplines. Its fourteen chapters contain detailed philosophical and scientific arguments about the nature and mechanisms of attention; the relationship between attention and consciousness; the role of attention in explaining reference, rational thought, and the control of action; the fundamental metaphysical status of attention, and the details of its implementation in the brain. These contributions combine ideas from phenomenology, neuroscience, cognitive psychology and philosophy of mind to further our understanding of this centrally important mental phenomenon, and to bring to light the foundational questions that any satisfactory theory of attention will need to address.
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1.: Christopher Mole, Declan Smithies, and Wayne Wu, "Introduction"
2.: Christian Ruff, "A Systems-Neuroscience View of Attention"
3.: Alan Allport, "Attention and Integration"
4.: Christopher Mole, "The Metaphysics of Attention"
5.: Katherine Armstrong, "Covert Spatial Attention and Saccade Planning"
6.: Wayne Wu, "Attention as Selection for Action"
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1.: Christopher Mole, Declan Smithies, and Wayne Wu, "Introduction"
2.: Christian Ruff, "A Systems-Neuroscience View of Attention"
3.: Alan Allport, "Attention and Integration"
4.: Christopher Mole, "The Metaphysics of Attention"
5.: Katherine Armstrong, "Covert Spatial Attention and Saccade Planning"
6.: Wayne Wu, "Attention as Selection for Action"
7.: Srimant Tripathy, Haluk Ogmen and Sathyashi Narasimhan, "Multiple Object-Tracking: A Serial Attentional Process?"
8.: Sebastian Watzl, "Attention as Structuring the Stream of Consciousness"
9.: Jesse Prinz, "Is Attention Necessary and Sufficient for Consciousness?"
10.: Ian Phillips, "Attention and Iconic Memory"
11.: Robert Kentridge, "Attention Without Awareness: A Brief Review"
12.: Declan Smithies, "Attention is Rational-Access Consciousness"
13.: Johannes Roessler, "Perceptual Attention and the Space of Reasons"
14.: Imogen Dickie, "Visual Attention Fixes Demonstrative Reference By Eliminating Referential Luck"
15.: John Campbell, "Visual Attention and the Epistemic Role of Attention"
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MANY SENSE OF “ATTENTION”
A LOOK AHEAD
ATTENTION AS SYSTEM LIMITATION
Process that Do, or Do Not, Require Attention
Two Types of Limitation: Graded Capacity and All-or-None Bottleneck
Behavioural Paradigms
The Psychological Refractory Period
Causal Origins of an Attentional Bottleneck
INTEGRATED, BIASE COMPETITION
The Basic Hypothesis
Integrated Competition and Constraint Satisfaction
EXECUTIVE CONTROL AND WORKING MEMORY
Where Do the Top-Down Bias Signals Coms From?
Working Memory Models
Working Memory and Attention
Executive Control or “Behavioural Context”?
Current Behavioural Context
Goals, Plans, and Intentions
Long-Term Working Memory
BRAIN STRUCTURES AND ATTENTIONAL CONTROL
Prefrontal Cortex
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- Overview
- author’s view: Structuralism
- analogy: structuring one’s life around a project/goal
- focus of attention: the project
- to focus: to structure
- perspective/point of view: centred on the project
- structuring
- consists of all kinds of attention
- ways for structuring stream of consciousness
- conscious perceptual attention
- conscious attention to sensation (bodily)
- conscious attention to one's thought (or trains of thought)
- EXAMPLE AND CLARIFICATIONS
- goal: give an account of conscious attention
- MOTIVATING STRUCTURALISM
- five these about conscious attention
- Purity: may not involve body (mental)
- instance:
- 1. figure7.1
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0 有用 Syaoming 2014-08-18 13:13:00
还是先找些简单的看……