Educar la atención

Everyone knows how important attention is. Attending allows us to better manage our behavior and adapt it to more strategic and longer-range objectives. It is an essential capacity for learning and regulating thoughts, emotions and actions. Knowing the functioning of attention and the factors that promote its optimal development is essential to function in a complex and changing world. Drawing on current and scientific knowledge, this book educates the reader about what attention is and prepares him to train it. The advances in cognitive psychology and neuroscience that have occurred in recent decades have led to great advances in the knowledge of the higher cognitive abilities of the human being. Charo Rueda, Professor of Psychology at the University of Granada, describes in an accessible and precise language the advances in the field of care, addressing its development throughout life, the genetic and educational factors that provide the basis for this development and its importance for learning. The book leads to ideas, strategies and recommendations to enhance the optimal functioning of this capacity so crucial for the intelligent, social and emotionally adjusted behavior of the human being.