(Ebook) The Orienting Response in Information Processing by Eugene N. Sokolov, Heikki Lyytinen, Risto Naatanen, Evgeni N. Sokolov, John Spinks ISBN 9780585439693, 9780805830811, 0585439699, 0805830812

(Ebook) The Orienting Response in Information Processing by Eugene N. Sokolov, Heikki Lyytinen, Risto Naatanen, Evgeni N. Sokolov, John Spinks ISBN 9780585439693, 9780805830811, 0585439699, 0805830812

This book is a testimony to Evgeny Nikolaevich Sokolov's years of work in developing knowledge in the areas of perception, information processing and attention, and to the research it has spawned. It presents a historical account of a research program, leading the reader toward a cognitive science approach to the study of perception and attention. An understanding of neuroscience and mathematical modeling are helpful prerequisites. The co-authors collected data on orienting, attention, and information processing in the brain using single-cell recordings, central, autonomic, cognitive, behavioral, and verbal measures. This commonality brought them together for a series of meetings which resulted in the production of this book. The book ends with a review of some of the co-authors studies that have developed from or in parallel with Sokolov's research. They investigate, in particular, the concepts of attention and anticipation using a psychophysiological methodology.