Cortical mechanisms of cognitive control for shifting attention in vision and working memory.

ABSTRACT: Organisms operate within both a perceptual domain of objects and events, and a mnemonic domain of past experiences and future goals. Each domain requires a deliberate selection of task-relevant information, through deployments of external (perceptual) and internal (mnemonic) attention, respectively. Little is known about the control of attention shifts in working memory, or whether voluntary control of attention in these two domains is subserved by a common or by distinct functional networks. We used human fMRI to examine the neural basis of cognitive control while participants shifted attention in vision and in working memory. We found that these acts of control recruit in common a subset of the dorsal fronto-parietal attentional control network, including the medial superior parietal lob

SUBMITTER: Tamber-Rosenau BJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3158824 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature