Methods and Key Concepts

The Bibliography of Methods and Concepts of Attention is an on-going project to build a collection of texts that represent different theoretical and methodological frameworks for the study of attention from across disciplines. This will promote mutual comprehension and start to build a definition of ‘Attention Studies’ as a field.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • Brittan, F., Raz, C., Mathew, N., Kieffer, A., and Steege, B. (2019) ‘Colloquy: Attention, Anxiety, and Audition’s Histories’, Journal of the American Musicological Society, 72(2), 541–580. Abstract
  • Cutting, J. E., DeLong, J. E., and Nothelfer, C. E. (2010) ‘Attention and the Evolution of Hollywood Film’, Psychological Science, 21(3), 432–439. Abstract
  • Head, M. (2004) ‘Musical listening in the German enlightenment: Attention, wonder and astonishment’, Current Musicology, (77), 117-121,171. Abstract and Table of Contents
  • Prendergast, M. (2004) “Playing attention’: Contemporary aesthetics and performing arts audience education’, Journal of Aesthetic Education, 38(3), 36-51. Abstract
  • Ocasio, W. (1997) ‘Towards an Attention-Based View of the Firm’, Strategic Management Journal, 18, 187-206. Full-text
  • Smith, A.N. and Fischer, E. (2020) ‘Pay attention, please! Person brand building in organized online attention economies’, J. of the Acad. Mark. Sci. Abstract
  • van Laer, T., de Ruyter, K., and Cox, D. (2013) ‘A Walk in Customers’ Shoes: How Attentional Bias Modification Affects Ownership of Integrity-violating Social Media Posts’, Journal of Interactive Marketing, 27(1), 14–27. Full-text
  • Behrisch, M., Blumenschein, M., Kim, N.W., Shao, L., El-Assady, M., Fuchs, J., Seebacher, D., Diehl, A., Brandes, U., Pfister, H., Schreck, T., Weiskopf, D., and Keim, D.A. (2018) ‘Quality Metrics for Information Visualization’, Computer Graphics Forum 37, 625–662. Abstract
  • Borgo, R., Abdul-Rahman, A., Mohamed, F., Grant, P.W., Reppa, I., Floridi, L. and Chen, M. (2012) ‘An Empirical Study on Using Visual Embellishments in Visualization’, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 18, 2759–2768. Abstract
  • Borkin, M.A., Bylinskii, Z., Kim, N.W., Bainbridge, C.M., Yeh, C.S., Borkin, D., Pfister, H. and Oliva, A. (2016) ‘Beyond Memorability: Visualization Recognition and Recall’. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 22, 519–528. Abstract
  • Fukuda, K., and Vogel, E.K. (2009) ‘Human Variation in Overriding Attentional Capture’, Neurosci. 29, 8726. Full text
  • Healey, C. and Enns, J. (2012) ‘Attention and Visual Memory in Visualization and Computer Graphics’, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics 18, 1170–1188. Abstract
  • Healey, C. G., and Enns, J. T. (2012) ‘Attention and Visual Memory in Visualization and Computer Graphics’, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 18(7), 1170–1188. Full-text
  • Neate, T., Jones and M., Evans, M. (2015) ‘Mediating Attention for Second Screen Companion Content’ Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). Abstract
  • Patterson, R. Blaha,L., Grinstein, G., G. Liggett, K.K., D., Kaveney, D. E., Sheldon, K. C., Havig, P. R. and Moore, J. A. (2014) ‘A human cognition framework for information visualization’, Computers and Graphics, Volume 42, 42-58. Full-text
  • Patterson, R.E., Blaha, L.M., Grinstein, G.G., Liggett, K.K., Kaveney, D.E., Sheldon, K.C., Havig, P.R. and Moore, J.A. (2014) ‘A human cognition framework for information visualization’, Computers and Graphics 42, 42–58. Abstract
  • Haroz and D. Whitney (2012) ‘How Capacity Limits of Attention Influence Information Visualization Effectiveness’, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 18, no. 12, pp. 2402-2410. Abstract
  • Bucher, T.(2018) IF…THEN: Algorithmic power and politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Abstract
  • Bucher, Taina, and Anne Helmond (2018) ‘The Affordances of Social Media Platforms’, in Burgess, J. Poell, T. and Marwick, A. (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Social Media London: SAGE Publications Ltd, pp. 233–253. Abstract
  • Thain, M. (2018) ‘Distracted Reading: Acts of Attention in the Age of the Internet’, Digital Humanities Quarterly, 12(2). Full-text
  • Castro, C., and Pham, A. (2020) ‘Is the Attention Economy Noxious?’, Philosophical Imprints, 20 (17): 1-12  Full-text
  • Downs, A. (1972) ‘Up and Down with Ecology: The Issue Attention Cycle’, Public Interest (28): 38-50 Full-text
  • Jennings, W., and John, P. (2009) ‘The Dynamics of Political Attention: public opinion and the Queens Speech in the United Kingdom’, Americal Journal of Political Science, 53 (4): 838-854  Abstract
  • Lanham, R. (2007) The Economics of Attention: style and substance in the age of information. Chicago University Press  Abstract
  • Prat, Andrea, and Valletti, Tommaso M. (2021) 'Attention Oligopoly', American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Forthcoming , available at SSRN: Abstract
  • Valletti, Tommaso M., and Veiga, Andre (2021) 'Attention, recall, and purchase: Experimental evidence on online news and advertising', Marketing Science, R&R, available at SSRN Full text
  • Daston, L. (2003) ‘Attention and the Values of Nature in the Enlightenment’ in Daston, L. and Vidal, F. (eds) The Moral Authority of Nature. University of Chicago Press., pp-100-126 Abstract
  • Daston, L. (2005) ‘The Disciplines of Attention’ in Wellbery, D.E. (ed.) A New History of German Literature. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press Reference Library.
  • Brendecke, A. (2018) ‘Attention and Vigilance as Subjects of Historiography. An Introductory Essay’, in Arndt Brendecke and Paola Molino (eds.), The History and Cultures of Vigilance. Historicizing the Role of Private Attention in Society, Special Issue of Storia della Storiografia, 74-2, pp.17-27.
  • Duttlinger, C. (2007) ‘Between Contemplation and Distraction: Configurations of Attention in Walter Benjamin’, German Studies Review, 30(1), 33-54. Abstract
  • Marno, D. (2016) Death Be Not Proud: The Art of Holy Attention. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Table of Contents
  • North, P. (2012). The problem of distraction. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Abstract
  • Selbin, J.C. (2016) ‘Read with Attention: John Cassell, John Ruskin, and the History of Close Reading’, Victorian Studies, 58(3), 493-521. Abstract
  • Fan, J. (2014) ‘An information theory account of cognitive control’, Hum. Neurosci. 8. Full-text
  • Lorenz-Spreen, P., Mønsted, B. M., Hövel, P., and Lehmann, S. (2019) ‘Accelerating dynamics of collective attention’, Nature Communications, 10(1), 1–10. Full-text
  • Mack, A., Pappas, Z., Silverman, M., and Gay, R. (2002) ‘What we see: Inattention and the capture of attention by meaning’ Consciousness and Cognition 11, 488–506. Abstract
  • Petersen, S. E., and Posner, M. I. (2012) ‘The Attention System of the Human Brain: 20 Years After’, Annual Review of Neuroscience, 35(1), 73–89. Full-text
  • Price, R. B., Wallace, M., Kuckertz, J. M., Amir, N., Graur, S., Cummings, L., Popa, P., Carlbring, P., and Bar-Haim, Y. (2016) ‘Pooled patient-level meta-analysis of children and adults completing a computer-based anxiety intervention targeting attentional bias’, Clinical psychology review, 50, 37–49. Abstract
  • Rothbart, M.K. and Posner, M.I. (2015) ‘The developing brain in a multitasking world’, Developmental Review 35, 42-63.
  • Sonuga-Barke, E. J. S., and Castellanos, F. X. (2007) ‘Spontaneous attentional fluctuations in impaired states and pathological conditions: A neurobiological hypothesis’, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 31(7), 977–986. Abstract
  • Sonuga-Barke, E. J. S., Wiersema, J. R., van der Meere, J. J., and Roeyers, H. (2009) ‘Context-dependent Dynamic Processes in Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Differentiating Common and Unique Effects of State Regulation Deficits and Delay Aversion’, Neuropsychology Review, 20(1), 86–102. Abstract
  • Spratling, M. W., and Johnson, M. H. (2004) ‘A Feedback Model of Visual Attention’, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16(2), 219–237. Full-text
  • Dumitrescu, I., and Smith, C (2019) ‘The Demon of Distraction’, Critical Inquiry Posts from the Pandemic 47 (2):77-81. Full-text
  • Fairwether, A., and Montemayor, C. (2018) Knowledge, dexterity, and attention: a theory of epistemic agency. Cambridge University Press. Abstract
  • Ganeri, J. (2017) Attention, not self. Oxford University Press. Abstract
  • Mole, C. (2010) Attention is Cognitive Unison: an Essay in Philosophical Psychology. Oxford University Press. Abstract
  • Prinz, J. J. (2012) The Conscious Brain: How Attention Engenders Experience. Oxford University Press. Contents
  • Smith, C. (2019) ‘Disciplines of Attention in a Secular Age’, Critical Inquiry 45 (4):884-909. Introduction
  • Wu, W. (2023) Movements of the Mind: a Theory of Attention, Intention and Action. Oxford University Press. Abstract
  • Costall, A. (2017) ‘1966 and All That: James Gibson and Bottom-Down Theory, Ecological Psychology’, 29(3), 221–230. Abstract
  • Hayes, S., Hirsch, C. R., and Mathews, A. (2010) ‘Facilitating a benign attentional bias reduces negative thought intrusions’, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 119(1), 235–240. Abstract
  • James, W. (1980) The principles of Psychology. Henry Holt and Company. Full-text
  • Philips, Adam. (2019) ‘You have to let your child teach you’. Interview with Hannah Beckerman, The Guardian [online] Available at: <https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jul/06/adam-phillips-interview-attention-seeking?fbclid=IwAR3sGGx1nV-bVTlBRPgDbpst6taTBy3dQbu9oPzReWoL5B_QYau6PFSfUEI> [Accessed 29 June 2021].
  • Posner, M. I. (2016) ‘Orienting of Attention: Then and Now’, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69(10), 1864–1875. Abstract
  • Kassabian, A. (2013) Ubiquitous Listening: Affect, Attention, and Distributed Subjectivity. Berkely; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press. Table of Contents
  • Crawford, M. (2015) The World Beyond Your Head: on becoming an individual in the age of distraction. London: Penguin. Abstract
  • Jones, B., and Baumgartner, F. (2007) The politics of attention: How government prioritizes problems. Chicago University Press Table of Contents
  • Odell, J. (2021) How to do nothing: resisting the attention economy. Melville House Publishing.
  • Somin, I. (2013) Democracy and Political Ignorance. Why Smaller Government Is Smarter. Stanford University Press Abstract
  • Sunstein, C. (2017) #Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media. Princeton University Press. Abstract
  • Williams, J. (2018). Stand out of our light: Freedom and resistance in the attention economy. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. Full-text