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<strong>This text presents a comprehensive and accessible overviewof the science of attention, conveying its central findings andapplications to real-world issues, including its relationship withtechnology, learning, and memory.</strong> The study of attentionis a core area of psychology that is particularly relevant today,given the ever-increasing demands on our mental workload. This bookconveys the essential issues in attention research, showing howtheory and research co-evolve. The authors use an interdisciplinaryinformation-processing framework that draws from cognitivepsychology and neuroscience. Each chapter reviews a specific typeof attention and related cognitive processes, including auditoryand visual selective attention, attentional control and inhibition,divided attention and multitasking, sensory and working memory, andmemory consolidation and information retrieval. Feature boxes helpreaders translate key research findings into real-worldapplications. A special focus is the relationship between attentionand modern technology, for example in processing multisensory inputin virtual and online environments, and in situations such as airtraffic control, piloting, and drivin

Author

Robert W. Proctor, Kim-Phuong L. Vu, Addie Johnson

Publisher

Washington, DC: American Psychological Association

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781433833861

Updated

2026-03-24