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11566315

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
12
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-9-21
pubmed:abstractText
Neuroimaging techniques can be used not only to identify the neural substrates of attention, but also to test cognitive theories of attention. Here we consider four classic questions in the psychology of visual attention: (i) Are some 'special' classes of stimuli (e.g. faces) immune to attentional modulation?; (ii) What are the information units on which attention operates?; (iii) How early in stimulus processing are attentional effects observed?; and (iv) Are common mechanisms involved in different modes of attentional selection (e.g. spatial and non-spatial selection)? We describe studies from our laboratory that illustrate the ways in which fMRI and MEG can provide key evidence in answering these questions. A central methodological theme in many of our fMRI studies is the use of analyses in which the activity in certain functionally-defined regions of interest (ROIs) is used to test specific cognitive hypotheses. An analogous sensor-of-interest (SOI) approach is applied to MEG. Our results include: evidence for the modulation of face representations by attention; confirmation of the independent contributions of object-based and location-based selection; evidence for modulation of face representations by non-spatial selection within the first 170 ms of processing; and implication of the intraparietal sulcus in functions general to spatial and non-spatial visual selection.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0028-3932
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
39
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1329-42
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-11
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Testing cognitive models of visual attention with fMRI and MEG.
pubmed:affiliation
School of Psychology, Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd LL57 2AS, UK. p.downing@bangor.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't