Through the course of his long and distinguished career, Donald Broadbent has made major and lasting contributions to the field of applied psychology. This book brings together many other leaders in the field who describe the impact of Broadbent's work on their own investigations and how his insights have resulted in the successful scientific endeavors of other researchers. Broadbent's immensely important and varied body of work on attentional control of complex tasks, conscious awareness, stress, and the influences attention and selection have upon perceptual processes is paid detailed tribute. The book is a collection of authoritative, informative reviews as well as an homage to one of the most significant researchers in experimental psychology. It will be of great interest to researchers and students in applied psychology, including those specializing in information processing, human-computer interactions, and industrial/organizational psychology.
Part 1 Perception - selection and attention: the perception of features
and objects, Anne Treisman; on the output of a visual fixation, Andries
Sanders; selection of input and goal in the control of behaviour, John
Duncan; filtering and physiology in visual search - a convergence of
behavioural and neurophysical measures, Peter McLeod and Jon Driver; objects,
streams and threads of auditory attention, Dylan Jones. Part 2 Attentional
control of complex tasks: designing for attention, Neville Moray; motor
programs and musical performance, L. Henry Shaffer; working memory or working
attention?; Alan Baddeley; supervisory control of action and thought
selection, Tim Shallice and Paul Burgess; crystal quest - a search for the
basis of maintenance of practised skills into old age, Patrick Rabbitt. Part
3 Conscious awareness: search for the unseen, Larry Weiskrantz; implicit
learning - reflections and prospects, Dianne Berry; redefining automaticity -
unconscious influences, awareness and control, Larry Jacoby et al; varieties
of consciousness and levels of awareness in memory, Endel Tulving. Part 4
Attention, arousal and stress: viral illness and performance, Andrew Smith;
cognitive-energetical control of mechanisms in the management of work demands
and psychological health, G. Robert J. Hockey; individual differences in
personality and motivation - "non-cognitive" determinants of cognitive
performace, William Revelle; selective effects of emotion on
information-processing, John D. Teasdale; interaction of arousal and
selection in the posterior attention network, Michael I. Posner; self-report
questionnaires in cognitive psychology - have they delivered the goods?,
James Reason.
