Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section 1: Spatial Attention 1. Profiling the Spatial Focus of Visual Attention 2. How the Brain Prevents and Terminates Shifts of Attention 3. Neuronal and Neural-Population Mechanisms of Voluntary Visual-Spatial Attention 4. Sequential Effects in the Central Cue Posner Paradigm - On-line Bayesian Learning 5. ERP-fMRI Combination for the Study of Visual Perception and Spatial Attention 6. Source Localization of Visual Stimuli in Peripersonal Space 7. Involuntary Cross-Modal Spatial Attention Influences Visual Perception

Section 2: Feature and Object Attention 8. Object-Category Processing, Perceptual Awareness, and the Role of Attention during Motion-Induced Blindness 9. Feature- and Object-Based Attention: Electrophysiological and Hemodynamic Correlates 10. Neural Mechanisms of Feature-Based Attention 11. Effects of Preparatory Attention to Non-Spatial Features in the Visual Cortex 12. The Neural Basis of Color Binding to an Attended Object 13. Switching Attention between the Local and Global Levels in Visual Objects 14. Contour Integration: Sensory, Perceptual, and Attention-Based ERP Components 15. Attentional Control of Multisensory Integration is Preserved in Aging

Section 3: Attention and Cognitive Processes 16. An Evolutionary Perspective on Attentional Processes 17. Stimulus-Preceding Negativity (SPN) And Attention to Rewards 18. A Neural Measure of Item Individuation 19. Selective Attention, Processing Load, and Semantics: Insights from Human Electrophysiology 20. Altered N400 Congruity Effects in Parkinson's Disease Without Dementia 21. Oscillations and Behavior: The Role of Phase-Amplitude Coupling in Cognition

Feature- and object-based attention : electrophysiological and hemodynamic correlates / Mircea Ariel Schoenfeld, Christian Michael Stoppel -- Neural mechanisms of feature-based attention / Matthias M. Müller -- Effects of preparatory attention to nonspatial features in the visual cortex / Sean P. Fannon, George R. Mangun -- The neural basis of color binding to an attended object / Marla Zinni, Antígona Martínez, Steven A. Hillyard -- Switching attention between the local and global levels in visual objects / Mitchell Valdes-Sosa, Jorge Iglesias, Rosario Torres, Nelson Trujillo-Barreto -- Contour integration : sensory, perceptual, and attention-based ERP components / Michael A. Pitts, Antígona Martínez -- Attentional control of multisensory integration is preserved in aging / Jyoti Mishra, Adam Gazzaley --

An evolutionary perspective on attentional processes / Vincent P. Clark, Brian A. Coffman, Michael C.S. Trumbo, Ashley R. Wegele -- Stimulus-preceding negativity (SPN) and attention to rewards / Steven A. Hackley, Fernando Valle-Inclán, Hiroaki Masaki, Karen Hebert -- A neural measure of item individuation / David E. Anderson, Edward K. Vogel, Edward Awh -- Selective attention, processing load, and semantics : insights from human electrophysiology / Cyma Van Petten -- Altered N400 congruity effects in Parkinson's disease without dementia / Marta Kutas, Vicente J. Iragui, Yu-Qiong Niu, Tanya J. D'Avanzo, Jin-Chen Yang, David P. Salmon, Lin Zhang, John M. Olichney -- Oscillations and behavior : the role of phase-amplitude coupling in cognition / Boaz Sadeh, Sara M. Szczepanski, Robert T. Knight.