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Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

  • understand different cognitive psychological aproaches used to examine such forms of attention as attention to regions of space, attention to objects and attention for action

  • summarise the different cognitive psychological approaches under a fairly abstract definition of the term

  • understand how ideas about attention have changed and diversified over the last fifty years and how well they have stood up to examination.