The brain circuitry of attention
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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].”
From Cerebral hierarchies: predictive processing, precision and the pulvinar (2015) · cites this paper as [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].”
From Cerebral hierarchies: predictive processing, precision and the pulvinar (2015) · cites this paper as [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]”
From Cerebral hierarchies: predictive processing, precision and the pulvinar (2015) · cites this paper as [41]
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- Authors
- Shipp, S.
- Affiliations
- University College London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Shipp, Stewart
- ORCID
- 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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