Description
Book SynopsisThis book brings together leading international learning and attention researchers to provide both a comprehensive and wide-ranging overview of the current state of knowledge of this area as well as new perspectives and directions for the future.
Table of Contents1. An introduction to attention and learning ; 2. Two theories of attention: A review and a possible integration ; 3. Attentional learning ; 4. Selective attention to conditioned stimuli in human discrimination learning: Untangling the effects of outcome prediction, valence, arousal and uncertainty ; 5. Latent inhibition ; 6. Attention and perceptual learning ; 7. Acquired distinctiveness and equivalence: A synthesis ; 8. Attention and human associative learning ; 9. On the use of the term 'attention' ; 10. Attention and memory in human learning ; 11. Backward blocking of relevance-indicating cues:Evidence for locally eayesian learning ; 12. Brain systems of attention in associative learning ; 13. Neural correlates of attentional set ; 14. Clinical studies of attention and learning
