- The Oxford Handbook of Attention
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Guides to the Study of Attention
- Approaches to Visual Search: Feature Integration Theory and Guided Search
- Load Theory of Attention and Cognitive Control
- A Multi-level Account of Selective Attention
- Large-scale Networks for Attentional Biases
- Dynamic Brain States for Preparatory Attention and Working Memory
- Spatial Covert Attention: Perceptual Modulation
- Spatial Orienting and Attentional Capture
- Neural Systems for Spatial Attention in the Human Brain: Evidence from Neuroimaging in the Framework of Biased Competition
- The Time Course of Spatial Attention: Insights from Event-Related Brain Potentials
- Neuronal Mechanisms of Spatial Attention in Visual Cerebral Cortex
- Neuronal Mechanisms of Attentional Control: Parietal Cortex
- Neuronal Mechanisms of Attentional Control: Frontal Cortex
- Neural Mechanisms of Spatial Attention in the Visual Thalamus
- Attentional Functions of the Superior Colliculus
- Orienting Attention: A Crossmodal Perspective
- Neuronal Dynamics and the Mechanistic Bases of Selective Attention
- The Neuropsycho–Pharmacology of Attention
- Developing Attention and Self-Regulation in Childhood
- Feature- and Object-Based Attentional Modulation in the Human Visual System
- Object- and Feature-Based Attention: Monkey Physiology
- The Role of Brain Oscillations in the Temporal Limits of Attention
- Dynamic Attention
- Time for the Fourth Dimension in Attention
- Attention, Motivation, and Emotion
- Working Memory Biases in Human Vision
- Neural Mechanisms for the Executive Control of Attention
- Memory and Attention
- Attention and Decision-Making
- Attention and Action
- Developmental Disorders: A Window onto Attention Dynamics
- Attention and Ageing
- Unilateral Spatial Neglect
- Neurological Disorders of Attention
- Balint’s Syndrome and the Study of Attention
- Rehabilitation of Attention Functions
- Theory of Visual Attention (TVA)
- Computational Models: Bottom-Up and Top-Down Aspects
- Bayesian Models of Attention
- Attention: Time Capsule 2013
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
Attention is associated with improved performance on perceptual tasks and changes in the way that neurons in the visual system respond to sensory stimuli. While we now have a greater understanding of the way different behavioural and stimulus conditions modulate the responses of neurons in different cortical areas, it has proven difficult to identify the neuronal mechanisms responsible for these changes and establish a strong link between attention-related modulation of sensory responses and changes in perception. Recent conceptual and technological advances have enabled progress and hold promise for the future. This chapter focuses on newly established links between attention-related modulation of visual responses and bottom-up sensory processing, how attention relates to interactions between neurons, insights from simultaneous recordings from groups of cells, and how this knowledge might lead to greater understanding of the link between the effects of attention on sensory neurons and perception.
Keywords: spatial attention, single unit, cerebral cortex, modulation, normalization, correlation
Marlene R. Cohen, Department of Neuroscience and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, University of Pittsburgh
John H.R. Maunsell, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
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- The Oxford Handbook of Attention
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Guides to the Study of Attention
- Approaches to Visual Search: Feature Integration Theory and Guided Search
- Load Theory of Attention and Cognitive Control
- A Multi-level Account of Selective Attention
- Large-scale Networks for Attentional Biases
- Dynamic Brain States for Preparatory Attention and Working Memory
- Spatial Covert Attention: Perceptual Modulation
- Spatial Orienting and Attentional Capture
- Neural Systems for Spatial Attention in the Human Brain: Evidence from Neuroimaging in the Framework of Biased Competition
- The Time Course of Spatial Attention: Insights from Event-Related Brain Potentials
- Neuronal Mechanisms of Spatial Attention in Visual Cerebral Cortex
- Neuronal Mechanisms of Attentional Control: Parietal Cortex
- Neuronal Mechanisms of Attentional Control: Frontal Cortex
- Neural Mechanisms of Spatial Attention in the Visual Thalamus
- Attentional Functions of the Superior Colliculus
- Orienting Attention: A Crossmodal Perspective
- Neuronal Dynamics and the Mechanistic Bases of Selective Attention
- The Neuropsycho–Pharmacology of Attention
- Developing Attention and Self-Regulation in Childhood
- Feature- and Object-Based Attentional Modulation in the Human Visual System
- Object- and Feature-Based Attention: Monkey Physiology
- The Role of Brain Oscillations in the Temporal Limits of Attention
- Dynamic Attention
- Time for the Fourth Dimension in Attention
- Attention, Motivation, and Emotion
- Working Memory Biases in Human Vision
- Neural Mechanisms for the Executive Control of Attention
- Memory and Attention
- Attention and Decision-Making
- Attention and Action
- Developmental Disorders: A Window onto Attention Dynamics
- Attention and Ageing
- Unilateral Spatial Neglect
- Neurological Disorders of Attention
- Balint’s Syndrome and the Study of Attention
- Rehabilitation of Attention Functions
- Theory of Visual Attention (TVA)
- Computational Models: Bottom-Up and Top-Down Aspects
- Bayesian Models of Attention
- Attention: Time Capsule 2013
- Index
