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The prefrontal cortex and the executive control of attention

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Rossi, Andrew F., Pessoa, Luiz, Desimone, Robert, Ungerleider, Leslie G.·2009·Experimental Brain Research

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We review two studies aimed at understanding the role of prefrontal cortex (PFC) in the control of attention. The first study examined which attentional functions are critically dependent on PFC by removing PFC unilaterally and transecting the forebrain commissures in two macaques. The monkeys fixated a central cue and discriminated the orientation of a colored target grating presented among colored distracter gratings in either the hemifield affected by the PFC lesion or the normal control hemifield. When the cue was held constant for many trials, task performance in the affected hemifield was nearly normal. However, performance was severely impaired when the cue was switched frequently across trials. The monkeys were unimpaired in a pop-out task with changing targets that did not require top-down attentional control. Thus, the PFC lesion resulted in selective impairment in the monkeys' ability to switch top-down control. In the second study, we used fMRI to investigate the neural correlates of top-down control in humans performing tasks identical to those used in the monkey experiments. Several fronto-parietal and posterior visual areas showed enhanced activation when attention was switched, which was greater on color cueing (top-down) trials relative to pop-out trials. Taken together, our findings indicate that both frontal and parietal cortices are involved in generating top-down control signals for attentive switching, which may then be fed back to visual processing areas. The PFC in particular plays a critical role in the ability to switch attentional control on the basis of changing task demands.

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Authors: Rossi, A. F., Pessoa, L., Desimone, R., & Ungerleider, L. G.
Affiliations: National Institutes of Health (US)
Indiana University Bloomington (US)
McGovern Institute for Brain Research (US)
Corresponding author: Rossi, Andrew F.
Pessoa, Luiz
Desimone, Robert
Ungerleider, Leslie G.
ORCID: Pessoa, Luiz
Desimone, Robert
Ungerleider, Leslie G.
Venue: Experimental Brain Research
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 2008-11-22
Volume: 192
Issue: 3
Pages: 489-497
ISSN: 0014-4819 (ISSN-L)
1432-1106
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-008-1642-z
PMC: PMC2752881
OpenAlex: W2047331899
Cited by: 378
References: 65
Citations by year: 2026: 29 · 2025: 30 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 28 · 2022: 28 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 37 · 2019: 28 · 2018: 19 · 2017: 18 · 2016: 15 · 2015: 9 · 2014: 16 · 2013: 19 · 2012: 13
FWCI: 7.92
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Licence: www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations: Experimental Brain Research (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders: National Institutes of Health
National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH071589, Z01MH002035)
Topics: Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
Keywords: prefrontal cortex, top-down attentional control, attentional shift, executive function, frontoparietal cortex, hemispheric lateralization, macaque, functional MRI
MeSH terms: Animals, Attention, Brain Mapping, Cognition, Corpus Callosum, Cues, Denervation, Feedback, Functional Laterality, Macaca, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Mental Processes, Neural Pathways, Neuropsychological Tests, Parietal Lobe, Photic Stimulation, Psychomotor Performance, Visual Cortex, Visual Perception, Volition, Prefrontal Cortex

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