Attention was first book to provide a systematic overview and assessment of different empirical and philosophical work on attention. In this revised and expanded and updated throughout, this edition includes new chapters on working memory, on automaticity and skill, and attention and ethics

Wayne Wu is a Professor in the Philosophy Department, the Neuroscience Institute, and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at Carnegie Mellon University, USA.

Preface to the Second Edition Introduction 1. A Theoretical Framework for Attention 2. Attention and Action 3. Concepts of Attention in Cognitive Science 4. Visual Spatial Cueing 5. Visual Search 6. Attention and Memory in Action 7. The Metaphysics of Attention 8. Attention and Introspection 9. Attention and Phenomenology 10. Attention as the Gatekeeper of Consciousness 11. Attention, Automaticity and Skill 12. Attention and the Ethical 13. Thinking, Reasoning, and Cognitive Meandering Conclusion. Glossary References Index