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This introductory chapter describes and explains the focus of the book which is to present attention modelling in a multidisciplinary perspective. We first address the preliminary question of why one should care about modelling attention. First we show that it is a gate of conscious awareness at the interface between inner and outer and it is the key to survival. In the second time, we show that attentive computers using models of attention could be able to find regularities and irregularities in the input signal and thus be able to detect and react to unexpected or abnormal events.
After explaining the book’s main focus, we detail the structure of this book and explain who are the target readers.
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Mancas, M., Ferrera, V.P., Riche, N. (2016). Why Do Computers Need Attention?. In: Mancas, M., Ferrera, V., Riche, N., Taylor, J. (eds) From Human Attention to Computational Attention. Springer Series in Cognitive and Neural Systems, vol 10. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3435-5_1
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