Effortless Attention : A New Perspective in the Cognitive Science of Attention and Action.

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

The phenomena of effortless attention and action and the challenges they pose to current cognitive models of attention and action.

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