This volume describes research and theory concerning the cognitive neuroscience of attention. Filling a key gap, it emphasizes developmental changes that occur in the brain-attention relationship in infants, children, and throughout the lifespan and reviews the literature on attention, development, and underlying neural systems in a comprehensive manner.

Special features include:
a new model of the neural control of eye movements;
a developmental perspective on the burgeoning literature on the cognitive neuroscience of attention;
the integration of ideas, research, and theories across chapters within each section via summary and commentary essays; and
a summary of the most recent work in the developmental cognitive neuroscience of attention by several of the leading researchers in this field.

Review

"This book indicates how far the understanding of the development of attention has come in the past 10 years or so, and it also points to ways that the field will mature in the future."
―Contemporary Psychology

About the Author

John E. Richards