The Psychology Of Attention - Styles

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ATTENTION Elizabeth A. Styles Also available as a printed book see title verso for ISBN details THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ATTENTION THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ATTENTION Elizabeth A.Styles Buckinghamshire College, Bucks, UK HOVE AND NEW YORK This edition published in The Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. "To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge's collection of Thousands of eBooks please go to http://www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk/." Copyright © 1997 by Psychology Press Ltd. a member of The Taylor & Francis group All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by photostat, microform, retrieval system, or any other means without the prior written permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0-203-01643-2 Master e-book ISBN ISBN 0-86377-464-4 (hbk) ISBN 0-86377-465-2 (pbk) Contents Preface 1. Introduction vii 1 2. Early work on attention 10 3. Selective report and interference effects in visual attention 26 4. The nature of visual attention 48 5. Combining the attributes of objects and visual search 69 6. Selection for action 92 7. Task combination and divided attention 108 8. Automaticity, skill, and expertise 122 9. Intentional control and willed behaviour 142 10. The problems of consciousness 165 11. Epilogue 185 References 188 Author index 205 Subject index 215 Preface I know from my students that cognitive psychology fills some of them with dread. They see it as the difficult side of psycho