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The brain circuitry of attention

Shipp, Stewart·2004·Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Abstract

From an operational perspective, attention is a matter of organizing multiple brain centres to act in concert on the task at hand. Taking focal visual attention as an example, recent anatomical findings suggest that the pulvinar might act as a remote hub for coordinating spatial activity within multiple cortical visual maps. The pulvinar can, in turn, be influenced by signals originating in the frontal and parietal eye fields, using common visuomotor neural circuitry, with the superior colliculus acting as an important link. By identifying a complex, real neural architecture ('RNA') model for attention, it is possible to integrate several different modes of operation - such as parallel or serial, bottom-up or top-down, preattentive or attentive - that characterize conflicting cognitive models of attention in visual search paradigms.

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  • The relative overlap between the pulvinar fields of any given pair of areas roughly reflects their mutual level of cortical connectivity.

    “The relative overlap between the pulvinar fields of any given pair of areas roughly reflects their mutual level of cortical connectivity: for example, area V4 shares more pulvinar territory, and has stronger cortical connections with its neighbouring area TEO, than it does with the more distant area TE [41].”
  • Neuroanatomical observations suggest that for every direct connection between two cortical regions, there is a parallel, indirect pathway that goes through the pulvinar (replication principle).

    “Neuroanatomical observations of the pulvinar suggest that for every direct connection between two cortical regions, there is a parallel, indirect pathway that goes through the pulvinar. This is called the replication principle [41].”
  • Phase synchronization of distant cortical areas can be achieved by the pulvinar.

    “The second mechanism is phase synchronization of distant cortical areas by the pulvinar [41]”

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Authors
Shipp, S.
Affiliations
University College London (GB)
Corresponding author
Shipp, Stewart
Venue
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2004-05
Volume
8
Issue
5
Pages
223-230
ISSN
1364-6613 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2010931698
Cited by
402
References
77
Citations by year
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FWCI
1.50
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Trends in Cognitive Sciences (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
Funders
Wellcome Trust
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Keywords
attention, brain circuits, pulvinar, visual attention, superior colliculus, frontal eye field, parietal eye field, visual-motor integration, visual search
MeSH terms
Animals, Attention, Brain, Brain Mapping, Frontal Lobe, Models, Neurological, Nerve Net, Parietal Lobe, Superior Colliculi, Visual Fields, Visual Pathways, Visual Perception, Pulvinar

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