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An event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging study of voluntary and stimulus-driven orienting of attention

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Kincade, J. Michelle, Abrams, Richard A., Astafiev, Serguei V., Shulman, Gordon L., Corbetta, Maurizio·2005·The Journal of Neuroscience

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Attention can be voluntarily directed to a location or automatically summoned to a location by a salient stimulus. We compared the effects of voluntary and stimulus-driven shifts of spatial attention on the blood oxygenation level-dependent signal in humans, using a method that separated preparatory activity related to the initial shift of attention from the subsequent activity caused by target presentation. Voluntary shifts produced greater preparatory activity than stimulus-driven shifts in the frontal eye field (FEF) and intraparietal sulcus, core regions of the dorsal frontoparietal attention network, demonstrating their special role in the voluntary control of attention. Stimulus-driven attentional shifts to salient color singletons recruited occipitotemporal regions, sensitive to color information and part of the dorsal network, including the FEF, suggesting a partly overlapping circuit for endogenous and exogenous orienting. The right temporoparietal junction (TPJ), a core region of the ventral frontoparietal attention network, was strongly modulated by stimulus-driven attentional shifts to behaviorally relevant stimuli, such as targets at unattended locations. However, the TPJ did not respond to salient, task-irrelevant color singletons, indicating that behavioral relevance is critical for TPJ modulation during stimulus-driven orienting. Finally, both ventral and dorsal regions were modulated during reorienting but significantly only by reorienting after voluntary shifts, suggesting the importance of a mismatch between expectation and sensory input.

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  • Researchers have repeatedly observed increased RTPJ activity when perceivers must break their current attentional set to reorient to task-relevant stimuli.

    “In a literature that has developed in parallel with the work of Saxe and colleagues, researchers have repeatedly observed increased RTPJ activity when perceivers must break their current attentional set to reorient to taskrelevant stimuli (Corbetta et al. 2000(Corbetta et al. , 2005;;Corbetta and Shulman 2002;Shulman et al. 2002;Astafiev et al. 2003Astafiev et al. , 2006;;Kincade et al. 2005;Ser”

    From Activity in Right Temporo-Parietal Junction is Not Selective for Theory-of-Mind (2008) · cites this paper as Kincade et al. 2005

  • fMRI studies identified unique regions activated during exogenous attention tasks, specifically within TPJ.

    “fMRI studies have also identified unique regions that are activated during exogenous attention tasks [40], specifically within the temporal-parietal junction (TPJ).”

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Authors
Kincade, J. M., Abrams, R. A., Astafiev, S. V., Shulman, G. L., & Corbetta, M.
Affiliations
Washington University in St. Louis (US)
Venue
The Journal of Neuroscience
Published
2005-05-04
Volume
25
Issue
18
Pages
4593-4604
ISSN
  • 0270-6474 (ISSN-L)
  • 1529-2401
OpenAlex
W2127187028
Cited by
561
References
62
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FWCI
16.71
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Padua Research Archive (University of Padova) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
Funders
  • James S. McDonnell Foundation
  • National Institute of Mental Health (MH7192006, R01MH071920)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
Keywords
spatial attention, voluntary attention, bottom-up attention, top-down attention, attentional orienting, frontal eye field, intraparietal sulcus, temporoparietal junction, salient stimuli, behavioral relevance, preparatory activity, expectation mismatch
MeSH terms
Adult, Analysis of Variance, Attention, Brain Mapping, Cerebral Cortex, Cues, Evoked Potentials, Eye Movements, Female, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Orientation, Oxygen, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Photic Stimulation, Psychomotor Performance, Reaction Time, Time Factors

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