Raja Parasuraman, "The Attentive Brain"
The MIT Press l English | 577 pages | 2000 | 0262161729 | PDF | 29 MB
Of the myriad tasks that the brain has to perform, perhaps none is as crucial to the performance of other tasks as attention. A central thesis of this book on the cognitive neuroscience of attention is that attention is not a single entity, but a finite set of brain processes that interact mutually and with other brain processes in the performance of perceptual, cognitive, and motor skills.