Author information: (1)Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892. At the time of its publication, attention was a construct that had long been of theoretical interest in the field of psychology and was receiving increased research by cognitive scientists. Neurobiology of Attention is the first encyclopedic volume to summarize the latest developments in attention research. For early psychologists, such as Edward Bradford Titchener, attention determined the content of consciousness and influenced the quality of conscious experience.

Brain-based disorders of attention distort the individual's ability to select percepts, images, memories, or actions. The neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of attention. Attention - Attention - The neurophysiology of attention: The external manifestations of attention are accompanied by physiological changes, particularly within the brain and nervous system. It has been 15 years since the original publication of Neuropsychology of Attention. Attention is awareness of the here and now in a focal and perceptive way. Implementing intracortical neurophysiology experiments Running intracortical neurophysiology experiments Data analysis, paper writing and communication of scientific results. Yet, attention was Attention, in psychology, the concentration of awareness on some phenomenon to the exclusion of other stimuli.. The activity of neurons in many brain structures can be modulated by the attentional state of the animal. Colby CL(1).

An authoritative collection of over 100 chapters organized into thematic sections provides both broad coverage and access to focused, up-to-date research findings. The candidate will have to implement, run and exploit cognitive neuroscience experiments involving intracortical neuronal recordings in the awake behaving monkey. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a research and diagnostic method developed in the early 1990s, has been used to study many brain activities, including attention. Attention is a distributed process.