Excerpt from The Psychology of Attention: Authorised Translation<br><br>Psychologists have given much study to the effects Of attention, but very little to its mechanism. The latter point is the only one that I propose to' investi gate in the following work. Yet even within these limits the question is important, for it is, as we Shall later see, the counterpart, the necessary complement Of the theory of association. If the present treatise contributes, be it ever so little, to point out clearly this want of contemporaneous psychology, and to induce others to supply it, it will have accomplished its pur pose.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.