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With tremendous nonchalance Michael Posner has traversed the borders of particular specializations, his mind occupied only by seeking an answer to the ques-tion of how our brain functions. And the pieces of that puzzle could not be found in one narrow subdiscipline.
Michael I. Posner (/ ˈ p oʊ z n ər /; born September 12, 1936) is an American psychologist who is a researcher in the field of attention, and the editor of numerous cognitive and neuroscience compilations.
Oct 1, 2016 · Abstract. It is nearly 35 years since I gave the 7th Sir Frederick Bartlett lecture at Oxford University. This was published as a paper entitled “Orienting of attention in the quarterly journal”. The topic was then primarily in psychology, but now equally often in neuroscience.
Jan 1, 2020 · Michael Posner was the first to use this task design, now often referred to as a Posner task or a Posner-like task. His seminal study demonstrated that spatial attention improves the accuracy and speed of behavioral performance at a cued location (Posner 1980).
- Ian C. Fiebelkorn, Sabine Kastner
- 10.1146/annurev-psych-010418-103429
- 2020
- 2020/01/01
Michael Posner has said that a better understanding of the human mind requires two things—the measurement of mental events and the mapping of those events to brain networks. During his career, Posner worked on both problems. The methods he established for measuring brain networks have been revolutionary, and have now been applied to the ...
Oct 25, 2021 · For more than fifty years Michael Posner has studied how mental operations, particularly those related to attention, are carried out by neural networks. He has used cognitive, imaging, and genetic methods.
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Posner’s early work involved the measurement of mental operations by use of reaction time and other chronometric measures. In 1979 he began studies of patients to link mental operations to brain areas in the study of attention.
