<ul> <li>Preface<ul><li>Publisher Summary</li></ul></li> <li>Contributors<ul><li>Publisher Summary</li></ul></li> <li>Part I: Neuroscience<ul><li>1: Electrophysiological Studies of Reflexive Attention<ul><li>Abstract</li><li>Background</li><li>The Effects of Reflexive Attentional Capture on Visual Processing: ERP Studies</li><li>Inhibition of Return: Inhibition of Perceptual Processing or Motor Programming?</li><li>Conclusions</li><li>Authors’ Notes</li></ul></li><li>2: Inhibition of Return in Monkey and Man<ul><li>Introduction</li><li>Summary and Conclusion</li></ul></li></ul></li> <li>Part II: Visual Cognition<ul><li>3: Inattentional Blindness and Attentional Capture: Evidence for Attention-Based Theories of Visual Salience<ul><li>The Present Experiments</li><li>Experiment 1</li><li>Results and Discussion</li><li>Experiment 2</li><li>General Discussion</li><li>Author Notes</li></ul></li><li>4: Involuntary Orienting to Flashing Distractors in Delayed Search?<ul><li>Experiment 1</li><li>Experiment 2</li><li>Experiment 3</li><li>Results</li><li>General Discussion</li></ul></li><li>5: Attentional Capture in the Spatial and Temporal Domains<ul><li>The Contingent Capture Hypothesis</li><li>A Challenge to the Contingent Capture Hypothesis</li><li>New Evidence of Top-Down Control in Visual Search</li><li>The RSVP Paradigm and the Attentional Blink</li><li>Attentional Capture in the RSVP paradigm</li><li>General Discussion</li><li>Author Note</li></ul></li><li>6: Attentional and Oculomotor Capture<ul><li>Attentional Capture</li><li>Oculomotor capture</li><li>Further speculations</li><li>Authors Notes</li></ul></li><li>7: Attention Capture, Orienting, and Awareness<ul><li>Selective Looking, Inattentional Blindness, and Explicit Attention Capture</li><li>Integrating Implicit and Explicit Attention Capture</li><li>Conclusion</li><li>Acknowledgments</li></ul></li></ul></li> <li>Part III: Multiple Modalities<ul><li>8: Using Pre-pulse Inhibition to Study Attentional Capture: A Warning About Pre-pulse Correlations<ul><li>Temporal Dynamics of Pre-pulse Inhibition</li><li>Pre-pulse Inhibition and Attentional Capture</li><li>Classical Conditioning of Pre-pulse Inhibition</li><li>Overview</li><li>Discussion</li><li>Conclusions</li></ul></li><li>9: Temporal Expectancies, Capture, and Timing in Auditory Sequences<ul><li>I Attending to Visual and Auditory Events: An Overview</li><li>II Dynamics of Attending to Auditory Sequences</li><li>III Evidence for Dynamic Attending to Slow Auditory Sequences</li><li>IV General Concluding Remarks</li><li>Acknowledgements</li></ul></li><li>10: Crossmodal Attentional Capture: A Controversy Resolved?<ul><li>Introduction</li><li>Speeded Detection Tasks</li><li>Speeded Discrimination Tasks</li><li>Implicit spatial discrimination task</li><li>Crossmodal Attentional Capture</li><li>Modality-Specific vs. Supramodal Attention Systems</li><li>Neural Correlates of Crossmodal Capture</li><li>Crossmodal Capture in the Applied Domain</li><li>Conclusions</li><li>Author Notes</li></ul></li></ul></li> <li>Part IV: Developmental<ul><li>11: Testing Models of Attentional Capture During Early Infancy<ul><li>The Selectivity of Visual Attention Early in Life</li><li>Methodology and Modeling</li><li>Some Sample Data on Selectivity and Capture</li><li>Considering Other Models</li><li>Conclusions</li><li>Author Note</li></ul></li><li>12: Attentional Capture, Attentional Control and Aging<ul><li>Cognitive Aging: Theory and Research</li><li>Attentional Control: Interaction of Stimulus-Driven and Goal-Directed Attention</li><li>Aging and Attentional Capture</li><li>Summary and Conclusion</li><li>Acknowledgments</li></ul></li></ul></li> <li>Part V: Individual Differences<ul><li>13: A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Attentional Control<ul><li>Relationships Between Motivation and Attention</li><li>Individual Differences in Motivation and Attention</li><li>Studies Relating Temperament, Motivation, and Attention</li><li>Summary and Conclusions</li></ul></li><li>14: Capacity, Control and Conflict: An Individual Differences Perspective on Attentional Capture<ul><li>Working Memory and Working Memory Capacity</li><li>Working Memory Capacity Predicts Attentional Control and Capture: The Evidence</li><li>Conclusion</li><li>Authors’ Notes</li></ul></li></ul></li> <li>Part VI: Dynmical Systems/Evolution<ul><li>15: A Dynamic, Evolutionary Perspective on Attention Capture1<ul><li>The Phenomena to be Explained and the Explanations</li><li>Limitations to Contemporary Theories of Attention Capture</li><li>A Dynamical Systems Framework</li><li>Segue</li><li>Attention Capture and Biological Evolution</li><li>Attention Capture and Cultural Evolution</li><li>Social Implications of Attention Capture</li></ul></li></ul></li> <li>Subject index<ul><li>Publisher Summary</li></ul></li> </ul>