Effortless attention : a new perspective in the cognitive science of attention and action /

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Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2010.
Description:viii, 449 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8050407
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Other authors / contributors:Bruya, Brian, 1966-
ISBN:9780262013840 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0262013843 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780262513951 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0262513951 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:"A Bradford book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Toward a Theory of Attention That Includes Effortless Attention and Action
  • 1. Effortful Attention Control
  • 2. The Benefits and Perils of Attentional Control
  • 3. Effortless Motor Learning?: An External Focus of Attention Enhances Movement Effectiveness and Efficiency
  • 4. The Impact of Anticipated Cognitive Demand on Attention and Behavioral Choice
  • 5. Grounding Attention in Action Control: The Intentional Control of Selection
  • 6. Implicit versus Deliberate Control and Its Implications for Awareness
  • 7. Effortless Attention, Hypofrontality, and Perfectionism
  • 8. Effortless Attention in Everyday Life: A Systematic Phenomenology
  • 9. Developing an Experimental Induction of Flow: Effortless Action in the Lab
  • 10. The Physiology of Effortless Attention: Correlates of State Flow and Flow Proneness
  • 11. Apertures, Draw, and Syntax; Remodeling Attention
  • 12. Toward an Empirically Responsible Ethics: Cognitive Science, Virtue Ethics, and Effortless Attention in Early Chinese Thought
  • 13. Flow Experience Explained on the Grounds of an Activity Approach to Attention
  • 14. Two to Tango: Automatic Social Coordination and the Role of Felt Effort
  • 15. The Thalamic Gateway: How the Meditative Training of Attention Evolves toward Selfless Transformations of Consciousness
  • 16. Training Effortless Attention
  • Contributors
  • Index