Attention and information Processing in infants and Adults

Byron A. Campbell, Harlene Hayne, Rick Richardson Princeton University.

• Preface, I. DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE ISSUES: HUMAN PERSPECTIVES, 1. Attention: The Heartbeat, the Blink, and the Brain, 2. Development of Sustained Visual Attention in the Human Infant, 3. Anticipatory Processes in Infants: Cardiac Components, II. DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE ISSUES: ANIMAL PERSPECTIVES, 4. Reflex Modification and the Analysis of Sensory Processing in Developmental and Comparative Research, 5. The Orienting Response as a Measure of Attention and Information Processing in the Developing Rat, 6. Stimulus Significance, Conditionability, and the Orienting Response in Rats, III. PHYSIOLOGICAL ISSUES, 7. Cardiac Orienting and Defensive Responses: Potential Origins in Autonomic Space, 8. Autonomic Regulation and Attention, IV. HUMAN INFORMATION-PROCESSING ISSUES, 9. Orienting, Habituation, and the Allocation of Processing Resources, 10. Orienting and Attention: Preferred Preattentive Processing of Potentially Phobic Stimuli, 11. The Orienting Response as an Index of Attentional Dysfunction in Schizophrenia, 12. Attention and Information Processing: A Psychophysiological Perspective, Author Index, Subject Index