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Intracortical recordings reveal vision-to-action cortical gradients driving human exogenous attention.

ABSTRACT: Exogenous attention, the process that makes external salient stimuli pop-out of a visual scene, is essential for survival. How attention-capturing events modulate human brain processing remains unclear. Here we show how the psychological construct of exogenous attention gradually emerges over large-scale gradients in the human cortex, by analyzing activity from 1,403 intracortical contacts implanted in 28 individuals, while they performed an exogenous attention task. The timing, location and task-relevance of attentional events defined a spatiotemporal gradient of three neural clusters, which mapped onto cortical gradients and presented a hierarchy of timescales. Visual attributes modulated neural activity at one end of the gradient, while at the other end it reflected the upcoming response timing, with attentional effects occurring at the intersection of visual and response signals. These findings challenge multi-step models of attention, and suggest that frontoparietal networks, which process sequential stimuli as separate events sharing the same location, drive exogenous attention phenomena such as inhibition of return.

SUBMITTER: Seidel Malkinson T

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10965949 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Intracortical recordings reveal vision-to-action cortical gradients driving human exogenous attention.

Seidel Malkinson Tal T Bayle Dimitri J DJ Kaufmann Brigitte C BC Liu Jianghao J Bourgeois Alexia A Lehongre Katia K Fernandez-Vidal Sara S Navarro Vincent V Lambrecq Virginie V Adam Claude C Margulies Daniel S DS Sitt Jacobo D JD Bartolomeo Paolo P

Nature communications 20240326 1

Exogenous attention, the process that makes external salient stimuli pop-out of a visual scene, is essential for survival. How attention-capturing events modulate human brain processing remains unclear. Here we show how the psychological construct of exogenous attention gradually emerges over large-scale gradients in the human cortex, by analyzing activity from 1,403 intracortical contacts implanted in 28 individuals, while they performed an exogenous attention task. The timing, location and tas ...[more]

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Project description:BackgroundUnderstanding the long-term behavior of intracortically-recorded signals is essential for improving the performance of Brain Computer Interfaces. However, few studies have systematically investigated chronic neural recordings from an implanted microelectrode array in the human brain.MethodsIn this study, we show the applicability of wavelet decomposition method to extract and demonstrate the utility of long-term stable features in neural signals obtained from a microelectrode array implanted in the motor cortex of a human with tetraplegia. Wavelet decomposition was applied to the raw voltage data to generate mean wavelet power (MWP) features, which were further divided into three sub-frequency bands, low-frequency MWP (lf-MWP, 0-234 Hz), mid-frequency MWP (mf-MWP, 234 Hz-3.75 kHz) and high-frequency MWP (hf-MWP, >3.75 kHz). We analyzed these features using data collected from two experiments that were repeated over the course of about 3 years and compared their signal stability and decoding performance with the more standard threshold crossings, local field potentials (LFP), multi-unit activity (MUA) features obtained from the raw voltage recordings.ResultsAll neural features could stably track neural information for over 3 years post-implantation and were less prone to signal degradation compared to threshold crossings. Furthermore, when used as an input to support vector machine based decoding algorithms, the mf-MWP and MUA demonstrated significantly better performance, respectively, in classifying imagined motor tasks than using the lf-MWP, hf-MWP, LFP, or threshold crossings.ConclusionsOur results suggest that using MWP features in the appropriate frequency bands can provide an effective neural feature for brain computer interface intended for chronic applications.Trial registrationThis study was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (Investigational Device Exemption) and the Ohio State University Medical Center Institutional Review Board (Columbus, Ohio). The study conformed to institutional requirements for the conduct of human subjects and was filed on ClinicalTrials.gov (Identifier NCT01997125).

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Intracortical recordings reveal vision-to-action cortical gradients driving human exogenous attention.

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Intracortical recordings reveal vision-to-action cortical gradients driving human exogenous attention.

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