Neural Mechanisms of Object-Based Attention
Abstract
How we attend to objects and their features that cannot be separated by location is not understood. We presented two temporally and spatially overlapping streams of objects, faces versus houses, and used magnetoencephalography and functional magnetic resonance imaging to separate neuronal responses to attended and unattended objects. Attention to faces versus houses enhanced the sensory responses in the fusiform face area (FFA) and parahippocampal place area (PPA), respectively. The increases in sensory responses were accompanied by induced gamma synchrony between the inferior frontal junction, IFJ, and either FFA or PPA, depending on which object was attended. The IFJ appeared to be the driver of the synchrony, as gamma phases were advanced by 20 ms in IFJ compared to FFA or PPA. Thus, the IFJ may direct the flow of visual processing during object-based attention, at least in part through coupled oscillations with specialized areas such as FFA and PPA.
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- Authors
- Baldauf, D., & Desimone, R.
- Affiliations
- McGovern Institute for Brain Research (US)
- Corresponding author
- Baldauf, Daniel
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2014-04-25
- Volume
- 344
- Issue
- 6182
- Pages
- 424-427
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2063803645
- Cited by
- 536
- References
- 4
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- FWCI
- 23.43
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Trento) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Fidelity Foundation
- Autism Research Institute
- Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative
- Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of Mental Health
- National Institute on Drug Abuse
- National Eye Institute (P30EY002621, P30EY2621)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
- Keywords
- object-based attention, fusiform face area, parahippocampal place area, inferior frontal junction, gamma synchrony, neural oscillations, face perception, place perception
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Attention, Brain, Brain Mapping, Female, Frontal Lobe, Humans, Functional Laterality, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Temporal Lobe, Visual Cortex, Visual Perception, Magnetoencephalography, Young Adult, Diffusion Tensor Imaging
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