Prefrontal Control of Proactive and Reactive Mechanisms of Visual Suppression.

ABSTRACT: In everyday life, we are continuously struggling at focusing on our current goals while at the same time avoiding distractions. Attention is the neuro-cognitive process devoted to the selection of behaviorally relevant sensory information while at the same time preventing distraction by irrelevant information. Distraction can be prevented proactively, by strategically prioritizing task-relevant information at the expense of irrelevant information, or reactively, by suppressing the ongoing processing of distractors. The distinctive neuronal signature of these suppressive mechanisms is still largely unknown. Thanks to machine-learning decoding methods applied to prefrontal cortical activity, we monitor the dynamic spatial attention with an unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution. We fi

SUBMITTER: Di Bello F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9247412 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature