Attention in Action: Advances from Cognitive Neuroscience (Advances in Behavioural Brain Science)

Over the past forty years much work has assessed how attention modulates perception, but relatively little work has evaluated the role of attention in action. This is despite the fact that recent research indicates that the relation between attention and action is a crucial factor in human performance. Attention in Action provides state-of-the-art discussion of the role of attention in action and of action in constraining attention. The research takes an interdisciplinary approach covering experimental studies of attention and action, neuropsychological studies of patients with impaired action and attention, single cell studies of cross-modal links in attention and action, and brain imaging studies on the underlying neural circuitry. Contributions from prominent international researchers both review the field and present new evidence, making this book an invaluable resource for researchers and therapists alike. Over The Past Forty Years Much Work Has Assessed How Attention Modulates Perception, But Relatively Little Work Has Evaluated The Role Of Attention In Action. This Is Despite The Fact That Recent Work Indicates That The Relation Between Attention And Action Is A Crucial Factor In Human Performance. Attention In Action Provides State-of-the-art Discussion Of The Role Of Attention In Action And Of Action In Constraining Attention.--jacket. Part 1. Functional Processes -- 1. Attending To What You Are Doing : Neuropsychological And Experimental Evidence For Interactions Between Perception And Action / Glyn Humphreys [and Others] -- 2. Hierarchical Systems Of Attention And Action / Asher Cohen And Hagit Magen -- 3. Attentional Selection In Sequential Manual Movements, Movements Around An Obstacle And In Grasping / Heiner Deubel And Werner Schneider -- 4. Intention In Action / Wolfgang Prinz, Sara De Maeght And Lothar Kunf -- 5. Intention And Reactivity / Tammy Astor-jack And Patrick Haggard -- 6. Selective Attention For Action : New Evidence From Visual Search Studies / Aave Hanus [and Others] -- 7. Attention And Inaction : Mechanisms For Preventing Distractor Responses / Nilli Lavie -- 8. Object- And Location-based Inhibition In Goal Directed Action : Inhibition Of Return Reveals Behavioural And Anatomical Dissociations And Interactions With Memory Processes / Sarah Grison [and Others] -- Part 2 : Neural Processes -- 9. A Map Of Complex Movements In Motor Cortex Of Primates / Michael Graziano [and Others] -- 10. Spatial Representations And Attentional Systems For Action In The Parietal Cortex / Matthew Rushworth And Amanda Ellison -- 11. Prefrontal Cortext And Attention To Action / Dick Passingham, James Rowe And Katz Sakai -- 12. A Neuroimaging Study Of Selection-for-action : A Reach-to-grasp Study / Heidi Chapman [and Others] -- 13. Attention Binding And The Parietal Lobes : Some New Perspectives On Optic Ataxia / Steve Jackson [and Others] -- 14. Selective Attention And Response Control Following Damage To The Human Pulvinar / Rob Ward And Shai Danziger. Edited By Glyn W. Humphreys And M. Jane Riddoch. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. Preliminaries......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 12 1 Attending to what you are doing Neuropsychological and experimental evidence for interactions between perception and action......Page 20 2 Hierarchical systems of attention and action......Page 44 3 Attentional selection in sequential manual movements movements around an obstacle and in grasping......Page 86 4 Intention in action......Page 110 5 Intention and reactivity......Page 126 6 Selective attention for action New evidence from visual search studies......Page 148 7 Attention and inaction Mechanisms for preventing distractor responses......Page 168 8 Object- and location-based inhibition in goal-directed action......Page 188 9 A map of complex movements in motor cortex of primates......Page 228 10 Spatial representations and attentional systems for action in the parietal cortex......Page 250 11 Prefrontal cortex and attention to action......Page 280 12 A neuroimaging study of selection-for-action......Page 304 13 Action binding and the parietal lobes some new perspectives on optic ataxia......Page 320 14 Selective attention and response control following damage to the human pulvinar......Page 342 Index......Page 368 Over the last 10 years or so, a good deal of evidence has accumulated that perception and action can dissociate from one another (for reviews, see Milner & Goodale, 1995; Rossetti & Pisella, 2002).