...an excellent overview of the current state of knowledge in cognitive psychology and the exciting prospects for the future....Singh and Parasuraman are to be congratulated for producing a fine volume that should be of significant value to students of cognition and human behavior both in India and in the West. - Joel S. Warm, Professor of Psychology, University of Cincinnati, in writing the Forward for this book

Automation in air traffic control may increase efficiency, but it also raises questions about adequate human involvement. The panel's first volume in a series on air traffic control automation is Flight to the Future. This second book focuses on the interaction of air traffic controllers and pilots, with a growing network of automated functions in the airspace system and offers recommendations for development of human-centered automation. It also explores ways in which technology can build on human strengths and compensate for human vulnerabilities; examines how to achieve better integration of research and development; and also discusses how to harmonize the wide range of functions in the national airspace system, with a detailed review of the free flight initiative.

Of the myriad tasks that the brain has to perform, perhaps attention is the most crucial. This compendium contains articles on topics such as Cognitive Neuroscience methods, varieties of attention, and attentional development and pathology. A central thesis of this book on the cognitive neuroscience of attention is that attention is not a single entity, but a finite set of brain processes that interact mutually and with other brain processes in the performance of perceptual, cognitive, and motor skills..