From Attention to Goal-Directed Behavior Neurodynamical, Methodological and Clinical Trends /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Aboitiz, Francisco (Editor), Cosmelli, Diego (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Biomedicine.

Francisco Aboitiz earned a PhD in Neuroscience at UCLA in 1991 analyizing the fiber composition of the human corpus callosum. After a period of postdoctoral training in the Mental Retardation Research Center of this same University, he returned to the University of Chile where he became Chairman of...

Table of Contents:

• Attentional Networks: Basic Mechanisms and Methodological Issues
• Neuronal Signatures of Selective Attention – Synchronization and Gain Modulation as Mechanisms for Selective Sensory Information Processing
• Intracortical Recordings During Attentional Tasks
• The Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Visual-Spatial Attention
• Attention and Neurodynamical Correlates of Natural Vision
• Attending to the Stream of Consciousness – A Methodological Challenge
• Crossmodal Attention–The Contribution of Event-Related-Potential Studies
• Measuring and Modulating Hemispheric Attention
• A Connectionist Perspective on Attentional Effects in Neurodynamics Data
• From Attention to Behavioral Control
• From Goals to Habits – A View from the Network
• Dynamics of a Neuromodulator – I. The Role of Dopaminergic Signaling in Goal-Directed Behavior
• Dynamics of a Neuromodulator – II. Dopaminergic Balance and Cognition
• Clinical and Developmental Issues
• Prefrontal Cortex and Control of Behavior – Evidence from Neuropsychological Studies
• The Maturation of Cognitive Control and the Adolescent Brain
• Electrophysiological and Genetic Markers of Attention Deficit–Hyperactivity Disorder: Boundary Conditions for Normal Attentional Processing and Behavioral Control
• The Aberrant Connectivity Hypothesis in Schizophrenia
• Erratum.