Imaging selective attention in the human brain
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Imaging selective attention in the human brain
Elsevier, 2001
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"Reprinted from Neuropsychologia, vol. 39 (12)"
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Presenting an overview of recent advances in the study of human selective attention with neurobiological measures, this title offers a review of the field highlighting new data from fMRI, PET, MEG and ERP methods. Selective attention was a central topic at the dawn of cognitive psychology, and it has proved equally central in the development of cognitive neuroscience. The recent advent of functional imaging, using PET, fMRI and more recently event-related fMRI, has transformed the study of selective attention. Other neurobiological measures, such as MEG and ERP recordings, have also played a critical role in human research, as has single-cell recording in related animal work. Together, these various neurobiological measures have shed new light on how selective attention operates. They have demonstrated striking modulations of sensory processing, and provided new information on the control processes that may be responsible for such modulation.
Given all this recent progress across a number of different neurobiological approaches the time has come to assess just how far the field has advanced; to identify the emerging consensus; and to outline the outstanding issues for future research.
Table of Contents
List of contributors. Editorial. 1. Neurobiological measures of human selective attention (J. Driver, R.S.J. Frackowiak). 2. The neural basis of biased competition in human visual cortex (S. Kastner, L.G. Ungerleider). 3. Dissociating top-down attentional control from selective perception and action (J.B. Hopfinger, M.G. Woldorff, E.M. Fletcher, G.R. Mangun). 4. Crossmodal links in spatial attention between vision, audition and touch: evidence from event-related brain potentials (M. Eimer). 5. Spatial attention and crossmodal interactions between vision and touch (E. Macaluso, J. Driver). 6. Orienting attention to time instants (A.C. Nobre). 7. Testing cognitive models of visual attention with fMRI and MEG (P. Downing, J. Liu, N. Kanwisher). 8. What can functional imaging reveal about the role of attention in visual awareness (G. Rees, N. Lavie)? 9. What exactly is extinguished in unilateral visual extinction? Neurophysiological evidence (C.A. Marzi, M. Girelli, E. Natale, C. Miniussi). 10. A framework for studying the neural basis of attention (C. Frith).
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