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Functional connectivity between ventral and dorsal frontoparietal networks underlies stimulus-driven and working memory-driven sources of visual distraction
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Date Issued
2014-01-01
Date Available
2014-11-11T10:04:30Z
Abstract
We investigate the neural basis of two routes to visual distraction: salient stimuli capture attention in a bottom-up fashion and the reappearance of task-irrelevant items that are being actively maintained in working memory can lead to distraction via top-down, but automatic, guidance of attention. Bottom-up, stimulus-driven distraction has typically been associated with a ventral network incorporating the inferior frontal gyrus and temporoparietal junction. A dorsal network including the superior frontal gyrus, superior parietal cortex and intraparietal sulcus is known to underlie the voluntary, top-down control of attention. Here we show that the ventral attention network may be modulated in a top-down manner by task-irrelevant memory signals. Furthermore, we delineate how the biasing of attention by these bottom-up and top-down sources of visual distraction is modulated by changes in connectivity among critical nodes of ventral and dorsal frontoparietal regions. The findings further our understanding of the neural circuitry that mediates the control of human visual attention.
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Medical Research Council
Type of Material
Journal Article
Publisher
Elsevier
Journal
Neurolmage
Volume
84
Issue
2014
Start Page
290
End Page
298
Copyright (Published Version)
2013 Elsevier
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
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