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17561830

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
10
pubmed:dateCreated
2007-6-12
pubmed:abstractText
While previous studies in psychology demonstrated that humans can respond more quickly to the stimuli at attended than unattended locations, it remains unclear whether attention also accelerates the speed of perceptual neural activity in the human brain. One possible reason for this unclarity would be an insufficient spatial resolution of previous electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) techniques in which neural signals from multiple brain regions are merged with each other. Here, we addressed this issue by combining MEG with a novel stimulus-presentation technique that can focus on neural signals from higher visual cortex where the magnitude of attentional modulation is prominent. Results revealed that the allocation of spatial attention induces both an increase in neural intensity (attentional enhancement) and a decrease in neural latency (attentional acceleration) to the attended compared to unattended visual stimuli (Experiment 1). Furthermore, an attention-induced behavioural facilitation reported in previous psychological studies (Posner paradigm) was closely correlated with the neural 'acceleration' rather than 'enhancement' in the visual cortex (Experiment 2). In addition to bridging a gap between previous psychological and neurological findings, our results demonstrated a temporal dynamics of attentional modulation in the human brain.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0953-816X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
25
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
3163-72
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2007
pubmed:articleTitle
Voluntary attention changes the speed of perceptual neural processing.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Integrative Physiology, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Japan. noguchi@nips.ac.jp
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't