Interaction Between Attention and Language Systems in Humans

Ramesh Kumar Mishra, PhD, is an associate professor of cognitive science at the Centre of Neural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Hyderabad. He has previously taught at the Centre for Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Allahabad. Dr. Mishra has published internationally and has edited/co-edited books in the areas of psycholinguistics, language-vision interaction and attention. His areas of interest include language-attention interaction, visual processing and action control. He has been a scientific visitor to the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Dalhousie University and the Institute for Cognitive Science Studies, Tehran, among others. Dr. Mishra is on the editorial board of PLOS One, Frontiers in Cognition, and Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence. He is also a co-editor of the cognitive science journal Brain, Cognition and Culture. Dr. Mishra is a fellow of the Psychonomic Society, USA.

"The relationship between attention and language has been the subject of extensive and continuing debate in cognitive science. Ramesh Mishra does the reader an impressive service weaving into accessible form the various findings and theories from this important area of cognitive science. And yet, beyond current findings and debate, the book also touches on the empirical and theoretical history of this domain, resulting in a very comprehensive treatment." (Rick Dale, Associate Professor, University of California, Merced)"Attention and language are isolable but also interacting cognitive systems. Each system is a complex of deeply interconnected components; consequently the nature of their interactions is an exciting and multifaceted domain for cognitive science thinking and research.  In this exciting volume Ramesh Mishra thoroughly and intelligently explores this domain." (Raymond Klein, University Research Professor, Dalhousie University)

• Chapter 1. Linking Language to Attention.- Chapter 2. The many Shades of Attention.- Chapter 3. Attention in Language: Historical Perspectives.- Chapter 4. Attention and  the Processing of Sentences.- Chapter 5. Attention in Speech.- Chapter 6. Language, Attention and Individual Differences.- Chapter 7. Attention, Language, and Vision.- Chapter 8. Attention in Reading.- Chapter 9. Cultural and Sensorimotor Events during Language--Attention Interaction.- Chapter 10. Attention and Language: A linking Proposal.