Review of Studies on Attention Published in Brazilian Journals

Attention has been a theme of Psychology studies since the introspectionist scholars until today. While the Behaviorism was a hegemonic approach, the studies of attention and consciousness have been abandoned. Only in the late 50s and early 60s, with the emergence of cognitive science, these issues reemerged. In this study we developed a biliographical research on the subject, published in Brazilian journals between 1999 and 2008, in the database SCIELO. The analysis identified 96 articles and focused on the aspects: the year of publication, the journal area and keywords. The results show a great number of articles in the area of Health, with a focus on child hyperactivity. The analysis of these results suggests a discussion on the role that has been occupying by the attention studies in Psychology and suggests a research agenda to overcome the fragmentation of the analyzes in the area

Attention; conscience; psychology