Increased Activity in Human Visual Cortex during Directed Attention in the Absence of Visual Stimulation
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When subjects direct attention to a particular location in a visual scene, responses in the visual cortex to stimuli presented at that location are enhanced, and the suppressive influences of nearby distractors are reduced. What is the top-down signal that modulates the response to an attended versus an unattended stimulus? Here, we demonstrate increased activity related to attention in the absence of visual stimulation in extrastriate cortex when subjects covertly directed attention to a peripheral location expecting the onset of visual stimuli. Frontal and parietal areas showed a stronger signal increase during this expectation than did visual areas. The increased activity in visual cortex in the absence of visual stimulation may reflect a top-down bias of neural signals in favor of the attended location, which derives from a fronto-parietal network.
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- Authors
- Kastner, S., Pinsk, M. A., De Weerd, P., Desimone, R., & Ungerleider, L. G.
- Affiliations
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- Venue
- Neuron
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1999-04
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 751-761
- ISSN
- 0896-6273 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2096955942
- Semantic Scholar
- 2ec59e01ed43773dfa07fd50f585063b2bde0642
- Cited by
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- References
- 61
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- FWCI
- 30.31
- Type
- journal article
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- en
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- bronze
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- Neuron (publishedVersion)
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- Funders
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- 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
- visual attention, covert attention, top-down modulation, visual cortex, extrastriate cortex, expectations, frontoparietal network, attentional bias, distractor suppression, frontal cortex, parietal cortex
- MeSH terms
- Attention, Brain Mapping, Frontal Lobe, Humans, Parietal Lobe, Photic Stimulation, Visual Cortex
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