ATTENTION

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Following are a diversity of resources (websites, videos, articles, among others) that may be of your interest. The majority of resources are available online for free in the hyperlink provided. If you are not sure where to start, recommended resources have the first word of the reference highlighted with light text over a dark background (e.g., Ansari).

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Chabris, C. & Simons, D. (2010). The invisible gorilla.

Chun, M.M., et al. (2011). A taxonomy of external and internal attention. Annual Review of Psychology, 62, 73–101.

Chun, M. M., & Turk-Browne, N. B. (2007). Interactions between attention and memory. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 17(2), 177-184.

Godwin, K., & Fisher, A. (2011). Allocation of attention in classroom environments: consequences for learning. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 33, No. 33).

Lavie, N. (2005). Distracted and confused?: Selective attention under load. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9(2), 75-82.

Le Pelley, M. E., Mitchell, C. J., Beesley, T., George, D. N., & Wills, A. J. (2016). Attention and associative learning in humans: an integrative review. Psychological Bulletin, 142(10), 1111.

Leong, Y. C., Radulescu, A., Daniel, R., DeWoskin, V., & Niv, Y. (2017). Dynamic interaction between reinforcement learning and attention in multidimensional environments. Neuron, 93(2), 451-463.

Morey, C. C., & Bieler, M. (2013). Visual short-term memory always requires general attention. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 20(1), 163-170.

Petersen, S. E., & Posner, M. I. (2012). The attention system of the human brain: 20 years after. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 35, 73.

Posner, M. (2009). Michael Posner on the anatomy of attentional networks – a historical perspective. [video] (19:49). goCognitive. Available at https://vimeo.com/5280169

Rosen, C. (2008). The myth of multitasking. The New Atlantis, 20, 105–110.

Rosenberg, M. D., Finn, E. S., Scheinost, D., Constable, R. T., & Chun, M. M. (2017). Characterizing attention with predictive network models. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 21(4), 290-302.

Rueda, M.R., & Posner, M.I. (2013). Development of attention networks. (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. In P. D. Zelazo (Ed). The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Psychology vol. I Body and Mind (pp. 683-705).

Tang, Y. Y., Rothbart, M. K., & Posner, M. I. (2012). Neural correlates of establishing, maintaining, and switching brain states. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 16(6), 330-337.

Tokuhama-Espinosa, T. (2014). Making classrooms better: Best practices 11-16 (attention; affect) [video] (19:44; 33:58 minutes).

Date of last update: 11-Jan-2021

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