Michael I. Posner

Research topics

• Child and Animal Learning Development · 1 paper
• Reading and Literacy Development · 1 paper
• Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills · 1 paper
• Neural dynamics and brain function · 1 paper
• Visual perception and processing mechanisms · 1 paper
• Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies · 1 paper

Frequent co-authors

• Charles R. R. Snyder · 1 paper
• Brian J. Davidson · 1 paper

Papers

1. Orienting of AttentionQuarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology · 1980 · 9,739 citations

   Bartlett viewed thinking as a high level skill exhibiting ballistic properties that he called its “point of no return”. This paper explores one aspect of cognition through the use of a simple model task in which human subjects are asked…

2. Attention and the detection of signals.Journal of Experimental Psychology General · 1980 · 3,680 citations

   Detection of a visual signal requires information to reach a system capable of eliciting arbitrary responses required by the experimenter. Detection latencies are reduced when subjects receive a cue that indicates where in the visual field the signal will occur.…