Spatial attention changes excitability of human visual cortex to direct stimulation
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Conscious perception depends not only on sensory input, but also on attention [1, 2]. Recent studies in monkeys [3-6] and humans [7-12] suggest that influences of spatial attention on visual awareness may reflect top-down influences on excitability of visual cortex. Here we tested this specifically, by providing direct input into human visual cortex via cortical transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to produce illusory visual percepts, called phosphenes. We found that a lower TMS intensity was needed to elicit a conscious phosphene when its apparent spatial location was attended, rather than unattended. Our results indicate that spatial attention can enhance visual-cortex excitability, and visual awareness, even when sensory signals from the eye via the thalamic pathway are bypassed.
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Attention can shift visual maps in the brain, both in BOLD signals and in percepts elicited through direct stimulation.
“Nonetheless, there is evidence that attention can shift visual maps in the brain, both in BOLD [17] signals and in the percepts elicited through direct stimulation [18].”
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- Authors
- Bestmann, S., Ruff, C. C., Blakemore, C., Driver, J., & Thilo, K. V.
- Affiliations
- UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology (GB)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Royal Holloway University of London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Bestmann, Sven
- Venue
- Current Biology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2007-01
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 134-139
- ISSN
- 0960-9822 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2054418046
- Cited by
- 96
- References
- 39
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 8 · 2012: 7
- FWCI
- 5.33
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Current Biology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) (acceptedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) (submittedVersion)
- Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)
- Funders
- Wellcome Trust (066097)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Neurology › Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
- Keywords
- spatial attention, visual cortex excitability, phosphenes, conscious perception, visual awareness, top-down attention, transcranial magnetic stimulation, direct cortical stimulation
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Attention, Female, Humans, Male, Phosphenes, Space Perception, Visual Cortex, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
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