Attention and Memory: An Integrated Framework Book

	Preface
1	Introduction: Modeling Memory and Attention	3
1.1	The fundamental relation between memory and attention	5
1.2	The emergence of memory and attention in modern psychology	6
1.3	Modeling the processing of information	9
1.4	The model of Cowan (1988)	24
1.5	A comparison of Cowan (1988) with other modeling approaches	32
1.6	Key issues regarding memory and attention	40
2	Sensory Memory Persistence	49
2.1	Sensory memory in current cognitive psychology	50
2.2	Definition and distinguishing features of sensory memory	53
2.3	Types of sensory memory and their durations	56
2.4	Uses of sensory memory	66
2.5	Neural representation of sensory memory	70
2.6	Challenges to the concept of sensory memory	75
3	Memory Activation and Attentional Focusing	77
3.1	A brief history of short-term memory concepts	77
3.2	Short-term memory limits according to cognitive psychology	79
3.3	Cowan's (1988) conception of short-term memory	93
3.4	Some unresolved issues in the Cowan (1988) approach	100
3.5	Neurophysiology of short-term memory	109
4	Actual Versus "Virtual" Short-Term Memory Phenomena	111
4.1	A challenge to multiple-store accounts	112
4.2	Arguments against the monistic view	118
4.3	Where do we search for short-term memory?	131
4.4	Refrain: what is short-term memory?	133
5	Attention Filtering and Orienting	137
5.1	The problem of attentional filtering	137
5.2	Habituation of orienting as a selective filter	140
5.3	Evidence linking orienting and selective attention	143
5.4	Some unresolved issues related to the habituation hypothesis	162
6	Attention and Long-Term Memory	167
6.1	Dissociations between direct and indirect memory measures	167
6.2	The importance of attention for long-term memory	171
6.3	Dissociation of automatic and attention-related factors	179
6.4	Separate or embedded memory processes?	182
6.5	Specific mechanisms of attention in memory storage and retrieval	189
6.6	Automaticity, attention, and long-term memory	192
6.7	A reassessment of attention and memory in Cowan's (1988) model	198
7	Attentional Focus and Conscious Awareness	200
7.1	The concept of a unitary focus of attention	202
7.2	The challenge from cognitive science: multiple resources	205
7.3	The challenge from psychology at large: dissociated states and awareness	225
7.4	The challenge from philosophy of mind: multiple perceptual drafts	232
7.5	Response to challenges to a unified view of attention and awareness: a summary	239
8	Concluding Observations, with Steps Toward Neuroscience	241
8.1	Relationships between memory and attention	242
8.2	Some directions for further work	246
8.3	Toward a neuroscience of memory and attention	248
8.4	Some observations about the future: on the changing relation between brain research and cognition	272
	References	275
	Author Index	309
	Subject Index	317