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Author Montemayor, Carlos, author.

Title Consciousness, attention, and conscious attention / Carlos Montemayor and Harry Haroutioun Haladjian.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 280 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-273) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Forms of attention -- Forms of consciousness -- Conscious attention -- Consciousness : attention dissociation and the evolution of conscious.
Summary "In this book, Carlos Montemayor and Harry Haladjian consider the relationship between consciousness and attention. The cognitive mechanism of attention has often been compared to consciousness, because attention and consciousness appear to share similar qualities. But, Montemayor and Haladjian point out, attention is defined functionally, whereas consciousness is generally defined in terms of its phenomenal character without a clear functional purpose. They offer new insights and proposals about how best to understand and study the relationship between consciousness and attention by examining their functional aspects. The book's ultimate conclusion is that consciousness and attention are largely dissociated. Undertaking a rigorous analysis of current empirical and theoretical work on attention and consciousness, Montemayor and Haladjian propose a spectrum of dissociation--a framework that identifies the levels of dissociation between consciousness and attention--ranging from identity to full dissociation. They argue that conscious attention, the focusing of attention on the contents of awareness, is constituted by overlapping but distinct processes of consciousness and attention. Conscious attention, they claim, evolved after the basic forms of attention, increasing access to the richest kinds of cognitive contents. Montemayor and Haladjian's goal is to help unify the study of consciousness and attention across the disciplines. A focused examination of conscious attention will, they believe, enable theoretical progress that will further our understanding of the human mind"--MIT CogNet.
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Language English.
Subject Consciousness.
Consciousness.
Attention.
Attention.
Psychophysiology.
Arousal.
Cognition.
Mental Processes.
Psychological Phenomena and Processes.
Psychiatry and Psychology.
Consciousness.
Attention.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Haladjian, Harry Haroutioun, 1973- author.
Other Form: Print version: Montemayor, Carlos. Consciousness, attention, and conscious attention 9780262028974 (DLC) 2014034378 (OCoLC)890807839
ISBN 9780262327497 (electronic book)
026232749X (electronic book)
9780262028974 (print)
0262028972 (print)