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(2013), "Cognitive Science, Development, and Psychopathology Typical and Atypical Developmental Trajectories of Attention", International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 26 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJHCQA.06226daa.016
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:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Cognitive Science, Development, and Psychopathology Typical and Atypical Developmental Trajectories of Attention
Article Type: Recent publications From: International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Volume 26, Issue 4
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Edited by Jacob A. Burack, James T. Enns and Nathan A. Fox, OUP USA, ISBN: 978-0-19-531545-5, September 2012
Keywords: Human perception and attention studies, Development in cognitive psychology, Health science integration and communication disorders
The disciplines of cognitive neuroscience, development, and psychopathology are complementary in the study of human perception and attention, even though each discipline emerges from a decidedly different and sometimes incompatible worldview. The meeting of researchers across these disciplines results in a fruitful cross-fertilization that ultimately leads to better science within each discipline and a joint scientific endeavor that is greater than the sum of its parts.
Cognitive Science, Development, and Psychopathology: Typical and Atypical Developmental Trajectories of Attention unites scholars sharing common interests in the development of attention and related areas of functioning with different perspectives and methodologies. The volume does not impose a single framework for discussing the relevant issues, but rather the authors highlight the importance of their own approaches to the study of the typical and atypical development of attention. Drs Burack, Enns, and Fox have organized the chapters into three sections: “Atypical environments, threat, and the development of individual differences in attention; “The organization of the development of attention in typical and atypical processing; and “The case of orienting attention in developing an integrated science. Discussion topics include cognitive bias modification, attention and the development of anxiety disorders, deficient anchoring, reflexive and abnormal social orienting in autism, and social attention. This volume is a unique and critical resource for researchers in communication disorders, developmental and cognitive psychology, human development, neuroscience, and educational and counseling psychology.
Contents include:
1. “Introduction..
2. “Cognitive science, development, and psychopathology: typical and atypical trajectories of attention.
3. “Atypical environments, threat, and the development of individual differences in attention.
“Linking early adversity, brain, and developmental psychopathology: a review of findings from survivors of extremely low birth weight and child maltreatment.
“Cognitive bias modification: the effects of training paradigms.
“Attention and the development of anxiety disorders: the importance of disentangling reactive versus regulatory components of attention.
4. “The organization of the development of attention in typical and atypical processing.
5. “Ontogenesis and microgenesis of visual perceptual organization.
“Deficient anchoring – a potential link between perceptual and cognitive difficulties among individuals with dyslexia.
“Autism: beyond weak central coherence.
6. “The case of orienting attention in developing an integrated science.
“Core components of flexibly attending: summary and synthesis of reflexive orienting in autism.
“Orienting attention to social cues typical and atypical development.
“Investigating social attention: a case for increasing stimulus complexity in the laboratory.
“Neurodevelopmental mechanisms in childhood psychopathology: the example of abnormal social orienting in autism.