International Conference on Attention, 2008

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The Conference attempted to explore interdisciplinary research on Attention and interaction of Attention with other cognitive processes.

The conference consisted of addresses by invited speakers from India and abroad. This conference also encouraged young scientists to present their work in poster sessions.

A volume arising out of the conference has been published by Elsevier (Progress in Brain Research: Volume 176)

Areas of Interest:

Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention

Dynamics of Attention

Attention and Perception

Attention and Consciousness

Emotion and Attention

Development of Attention

Cross-modal Attention

Computational Modelling of Attention

Cognitive control

Attention and Memory

Meditation

Attention in Language Processing

 

Speakers:

Anne Treisman, Princeton University, USA

James M. Brown, University of Georgia, USA

James Enns, University of British Columbia, Canada

Glyn Humphreys, University of Birmingham, UK

Alejandro Lleras, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Jane Riddoch, University of Birmingham, UK

Aditya Murthy, National Brain Research Centre, India

Mary Peterson, University of Arizona, USA

Jane Raymond, University of Bangor, UK

Alan Kingstone, University of British Columbia, Canada

Kimron Shapiro, University of Bangor, UK

Lynn Nadel, University of Arizona, USA