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The Attention System of the Human Brain: 20 Years After
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Here, we update our 1990 Annual Review of Neuroscience article, “The Attention System of the Human Brain.” The framework presented in the original article has helped to integrate behavioral, systems, cellular, and molecular approaches to common problems in attention research. Our framework has been both elaborated and expanded in subsequent years. Research on orienting and executive functions has supported the addition of new networks of brain regions. Developmental studies have shown important changes in control systems between infancy and childhood. In some cases, evidence has supported the role of specific genetic variations, often in conjunction with experience, that account for some of the individual differences in the efficiency of attentional networks. The findings have led to increased understanding of aspects of pathology and to some new interventions.
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“The cost of this subjective detachment appears to be a disruption of mental functions that are crucial to the development of identity, self-control, and emotion regulation [1, 16, 36, 37, 116].”
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“For example, individual differences in executive attention control are related to variables such as education experience and dopamine genes; and individual differences in alerting have been linked with function of the noradrenaline neurotransmitter system (Petersen & Posner, 2012;Posner & Fan, 2008;Posner & Rothbart, 2005).”
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“before engaging in cognitive activities, learners go through a stage of attention, which consists of three subsystems: the orienting, detecting/executive, and alerting systems (Petersen & Posner, 2012; Posner & Boies, 1971; Posner & Petersen, 1990).”
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“Petersen and Posner (2012) called the executive process focal attention and noted that it is the pathway to the cognitive activities.”
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“The regulation of this reactivity through attention is associated with three functionally, anatomically, and neurochemically distinct networks of attention in the brain: the alerting, orienting, and executive systems”
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“From a cognitive point of view, attention includes three subsystems: (a) The executive control system selects the target information for further processing, (b) the orienting system directs learners' attention to sensory stimuli, and (c) the alerting system keeps learners alert and vigilant for priority events.”
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“The third is attentional arousal (or vigilance), which is anchored in ascending noradrenergic neural systems7 and closely related to earlier ADHD-related proposals of arousal, activation, and gain efficiency, as well as to components of response-time variability.10 It is perhaps the most enduring cognitive mediator proposed for ADHD.11–13”
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“Within this model, alerting, orienting, and executive control networks carry out different functions that involve different brain structures and neurotransmitters [68-72].”
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“First, conceptually, in the dominant model of attention, the executive attention network is defined as similarly to common EF, as involving task set maintenance to provide top–down control supporting resolution of competition between response options (Posner and Petersen, 1990; Petersen and Posner, 2012).”
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“One significant factor that can affect inhibitory control is alertness [20]”
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“Dissociation is thought to interfere with a coherent encoding of salient events [35–37], leading to a fragmentation (compartmentalization) of memory”
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“Posner and Petersen (1990; 2012) conceptualized attention as consisting of three functionally independent attentional networks, which are responsible for a distinct set of cognitive processes: the alerting, orienting, and executive control networks.”
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“Our behavioral measure of EF entailed multiple attention and memory-related functions which may be more strongly related to a broader network centered on the dorsolateral PFC (Petersen & Posner, 2012).”
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“Neuroimaging studies show that the brain regions involved in attention control mainly include the ACC, the adjacent PFC, and the striatum/basal ganglia [13].”
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“Alertness is also an essential permissive signal for the orienting and executive aspects of attention (Robbins, 1997; Harris and Thiele, 2011; Petersen and Posner, 2012)”
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“Posner's model of attention, which is widely accepted and, crucially, has itself been validated across different units of analysis [68-72].”
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“Similar to the vagus nerve, the trigeminal conveys sensory inputs from skin, muscles, and skull to extensive connections within the locus coeruleus, reticular activating system, and nucleus tractus solitarius,12 regions involved in selective maintenance of attention.13”
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“These include automatic salience evaluation, [ 4 9 8 _ T D $ D I F F ] inhibition/interruption of ongoing activity[ 4 9 9 _ T D $ D I F F ] , alerting, salience-driven switching, and reflexive orienting [40,43,47,48].”
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“Guided by their review of cognitive neuroscience research findings, Petersen and Posner (2012) updated their 1990 attention model and identified five networks: an alerting network, two orienting networks and two executive control networks.”
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“Another advantage is that recent models of attention no longer uphold the distinction between separate shifting, engagement and disengagement components of orienting (Posner & Fan, 2008) and distinguish between bottom-up and topdown influences on orienting (Corbetta & Shulman, 2002;Petersen & Posner, 2012).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Petersen, S. E., & Posner, M. I.
- Affiliations
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- University of Oregon (US)
- Venue
- Annual Review of Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 2012-07-21
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 73-89
- ISSN
- 0147-006X (ISSN-L)
- 1545-4126
- PMC
- PMC3413263
- OpenAlex
- W2121049815
- Cited by
- 3,439
- References
- 86
- Citations by year
- 2026: 227 · 2025: 278 · 2024: 294 · 2023: 289 · 2022: 263 · 2021: 318 · 2020: 300 · 2019: 249 · 2018: 254 · 2017: 277 · 2016: 214 · 2015: 203 · 2014: 164 · 2013: 85 · 2012: 21
- FWCI
- 11.97
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Annual Review of Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- James S. McDonnell Foundation
- Georgia State University
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NS61144, NS32797, R21NS061144)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD-060563, P01HD060563)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Keywords
- attention, attentional networks, orienting, executive function, individual differences, genetic variation, attentional control
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Attention, Brain, Brain Mapping, Humans, Models, Neurological, Neural Pathways, Orientation, Social Control, Informal, Executive Function
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