This book is a well-written overview of attention orienting that is heavily illustrated to make challenging theoretical concepts accessible to the reader. It is an ideal introduction to the topic both for a broad audience and for students and researchers who require a state-of-the-art overview of the field.
Orienting of Attention is a very good book. It represents an impressive, nearly encyclopedic survey of attention shifts, their relation to the underlying brain anatomy and to the eye movement system. This book also documents the important effort to model attention shifts. Although the field of attention shifts is somewhat narrow, it is also one of the most active in neurobiology and cognitive neuroscience. The authors have developed a book that provides a background that is very important for these areas, and particularly for relating models and neurobiological findings to cognitive research. Reading this volume may also be useful even to many who may only have a slight interest in shifts of attention, but hope that the integration of methods and results obtained may be of use in other areas of attention and indeed in psychology as a whole.