Large-scale network interactions involved in dividing attention between the external environment and internal thoughts to pursue two distinct goals.

ABSTRACT: Previous research suggests that default-mode network (DMN) and dorsal attention network (DAN) are involved in internally- and externally-directed attention, respectively, through interactions with salience network (SN) and frontoparietal network (FPCN). Performing a task requiring external attention is often accompanied by a down-regulation of attention to internal thoughts, and vice-versa. In contrast, we often divide our attention between the external environment and internal thoughts to pursue distinct goals, yet virtually no prior research has examined how brain networks support this functionally critical neurocognitive process. In the current study, participants planned their responses for an upcoming alternate uses divergent thinking task (AUT-Condition), indicated whether arrows wer

SUBMITTER: Maillet D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6591027 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature