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  • 5 - Attention: Awareness and Control

  • Edited by Robert J. Sternberg, Cornell University, New York, Wade E. Pickren, Ithaca College, New York
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of the Intellectual History of Psychology
    Published online:
    18 May 2019
    Print publication:
    16 May 2019, pp 111-134

  • Summary

    Methods to control the mind go back 2,500 years, but our understanding of the brain networks used for such control has developed only in the last 30 thirty years. This chapter reviews the behavioral and cognitive tasks developed within psychology that lie behind these advances. Studies of switching, cueing attention, and resolving conflict have illuminated the mechanisms of attention. The chapter also discusses general methods in psychology which that have influenced theories of attention such as: behaviorism, introspection, information processing, and cognitive science. Attention has been applied to understanding development, consciousness, and aspects of pathology. Tthis chapter also considers these applications of the study of attention.