Effortless attention: a new perspective in the cognitive science of attention and action

Contents......Page 8
Introduction: Toward a Theory of Attention That Includes Effortless Attention and Action......Page 10
1 Effortful Attention Control......Page 38
2 The Benefits
 and Perils of Attentional Control......Page 60
3 Effortless Motor Learning? : An External Focus of Attention Enhances Movement Effectiveness and Efficiency
......Page 84
4 The Impact of Anticipated Cognitive Demand on Attention and Behavioral Choice......Page 112
5 Grounding Attention in Action Control : The Intentional Control 
of Selection......Page 130
6 Implicit versus Deliberate Control and Its Implications for 
Awareness......Page 150
7 Effortless Attention, Hypofrontality, and Perfectionism......Page 168
8 Effortless Attention in Everyday Life : A Systematic Phenomenology......Page 188
9 Developing an Experimental Induction of Flow : Effortless Action 
in the Lab......Page 200
10 The Physiology of Effortless Attention : Correlates of State Flow 
and Flow Proneness......Page 214
11 Apertures, Draw, and Syntax : Remodeling Attention......Page 228
12 Toward an Empirically Responsible Ethics : Cognitive Science, Virtue Ethics, and Effortless Attention in Early Chinese Thought......Page 256
13 Flow Experience Explained on the Grounds of an Activity 
Approach to Attention......Page 296
14 Two to Tango : Automatic Social Coordination and the Role of 
Felt Effort......Page 344
15 The Thalamic Gateway : How the Meditative Training of Attention Evolves toward Selfless
 Transformations of Consciousness......Page 382
16 Training Effortless Attention......Page 418
Contributors......Page 434
Index......Page 438