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Attention psychophysical approaches - Oxford Reference

Attention is the mechanism that allows us to selectively process the vast amount of information that we receive and to guide our behaviour. Visual spatial attention can be deployed overtly, accompanied by eye movements to the relevant location, or covertly, without eye movements (Helmholtz 1910/1925, Posner 1980). There are two types of covert attention: sustained attention refers to the volunt...

OXFORD PAPERBACK REFERENCE The Concise

algebra The area of mathematics concerned withalgebraic structures, such as *groups, *rings and *fields,involving sets of elements with particular operationssatisfying certain axioms. The purpose is to derive, from theset of axioms, general results that are then applicable toany particular example of the algebraic structure in question.The theory of certain algebraic str...

Oxford Desk Reference: Clinical Genetics

Reading this handbook of " Cardiothoracic " surgery, I am reminded of the Peter Cook & Dudley Moore sketch about the one legged man auditioning for the role of Tarzan: " I love your right leg … I have nothing against your right leg … unfortunately neither do you! " Well, I have nothing against the cardiac surgery side of this book, it is excellent. Unfortunately the Thoracic component is almost...

Oxford Bibliographies Online - Mathematics, Philosophy of

ion principles are crucial for the neo-Fregean. But which principles are acceptable? The notion of stability 11/4/10 10:42 PM Oxford Bibliographies Online Mathematics, Philosophy of Page 9 of 16 http://www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com/display/id/obo-9780195396577-0069 offers a promising response; roughly speaking, an abstraction principle is acceptable just in case it is satisfiable in all do...

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