A fronto-parietal network for rapid visual information processing: A PET study of sustained attention and working memory

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1085-1095

  Coull, J T ^a   Frith, C D ^a   Frackowiak, R S J ^a,b   Grasby, P M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^c HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Frontal; Functional imaging; Inter stimulus interval; Phonological loop; Selective attention; Vigilance

Indexed keywords

NEUROTRANSMITTER;

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL INFORMATION; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0030297628     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0028-3932(96)00029-2     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. 1. Arnsten, A. F. T., Goldman-Rakic, P. S. Alpha-2 adrenergic mechanisms in prefrontal cortex associated with cognitive decline in aged nonhuman primates. Science 230, 1273-1276, 1985.
2. 2. Arnsten, A. F. T. and Contant, T. A. Alpha-2 adrenergic agonists decrease distractibility in aged monkeys performing the delayed response task. Psychopharmacology 108, 159-169, 1992.
3. 3. Baddeley, A. Working Memory. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1986.
4. 4. Bajalan, A. A. A., Wright, C. E., Van Der Vleit, V. J. Changes in the human visual evoked potential caused by the anticholinergic agent hyoscine hydrobromide: Comparison with results from Alzheimer's disease. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 49, 175-182, 1986.
5. 5. Bakan, P. Extraversion-introversion: An improvement in an auditory vigilance task. British Journal of Psychology 50, 325-332, 1959.
6. 6. Baker, S. C., Rogers, R. D., Owen, A. M., Frith, C. D., Dolan, R. J., Frackowiak, R. S. J. and Robbins, T. W. Neural Systems engaged by planning: a PET study of the Tower of London task. Neuropsychologia 34, 515-526, 1996.
7. 7. Baker, S. C., Dolan, R. J., Fletcher, P., Frackowiak, R. S. J. and Frith, C. D. Making mental models: a PET study of relational reasoning, submitted to Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
8. 8. Bench, C. J., Frith, C. D., Grasby, P. M., Friston, K. J., Paulesu, E., Frackowiak, R. S. J. and Dolan, R. J. Investigations of the functional anatomy of the Stroop test. Neuropsychologia 31, 907-922, 1993.
9. 9. Clark, C. R., Geffen, G. M. and Geffen, L. B. Catecholamines and the covert orientation of attention in humans. Neuropsychologia 27, 131-139, 1989.
10. 10. Cohen, R. M., Semple, W. E., Gross, M., Holcomb, H. J., Dowling, S. and Nordahl, T. E. Functional localization of sustained attention. Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology and Behavioural Neurology 1, 3-20, 1988.
11. 11. Cohen, J. D., Forman, S. D., Braver, T. S., Caseyt, B. J., Servan-Schreiber, D. and Noll, D. C. Activation of the prefrontal cortex in a nonspatial working memory task with functional MRI. Human Brain Mapping 1, 293-304, 1994.
12. 12. Corbetta, M., Miezin, F. M., Dobmeyer, S., Shulman, G. L. and Petersen, S. E. Attentional modulation of neural processing of shape, colour and velocity in humans. Science 248, 1556-1559, 1990.
13. 13. Coull, J. T. Monoaminergic modulation of human attentional and executive function. Ph.D. thesis at the University of Cambridge, 1994.
14. 14. Coull, J. T., Middleton, H. C., Robbins, T. W. and Sahakian, B. J. Clonidine and diazepam have differential effects on tests of attention and learning. Psychopharmacology 120, 322-332, 1995.
15. 15. Coull, J. T., Middleton, H. C., Robbins, T. W. and Sahakian, B. J. Contrasting effects of clonidine and diazepam on tests of working memory and planning. Psychopharmacology 120, 311-321, 1995.
16. 16. Coull, J. T., Sahakian, B. J. and Hodges, J. R. The α2 antagonist, idazoxan, remediates certain attentional and executive dysfunction in patients with dementia of frontal type. Psychopharmacology 123, 239-249, 1996.
17. 17. Davies, D. R. and Parasuraman, R. The psychology of vigilance. Academic Press, London, 1982.
18. 18. D'Esposito, M., Detre, J. A., Alsop, D. C., Shin, R. K., Atlas, S. and Grossman, M. The neural basis of the central executive system of working memory. Nature 378, 279-281, 1995.
19. 19. Drevets, W. C., Burton, H., Videen, T. O., Snyder, A. Z., Simpson, J. R. and Raichle, M. E. Blood flow changes in human somatosensory cortex during anticipated stimulation. Nature 373, 249-252, 1995.
20. 20. Fletcher, P. C., Frith, C. D., Grasby, P. M., Shallice, T., Frackowiak, R. S. J. and Dolan, R. J. Brain systems for encoding and retrieval of auditory-verbal memory: An in vivo study in humans. Brain 118, 401-416, 1995.
21. 21. Frackowiak, R. S. J. Functional mapping of verbal memory and language. TINS 17, 109-115.
22. 22. Fristen, K. J., Frith, C. D., Liddle, P. F., Dolan, R. J., Lammertsma, A. A., Frackowiak, R. S. J. The relationship between global and local changes in PET scans. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow Metabolism 10, 458-466, 1990.
23. 23. Friston, K. J., Frith, C. D., Liddle, P. F., Frackowiak, R. S. J. Comparing functional (PET) images: The assessment of significant change. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow Metabolism 11, 690-699, 1991.
24. 24. Friston, K. J., Holmes, A. P., Worsley, K. J., Poline, J.-P., Frith, C. D. and Frackowiak, R. S. J. Statistical Parametric Maps in functional imaging: A general linear approach. Human Brain Mapping 2, 189-210, 1995.
25. 25. Glosser, G. and Goodglass, H. Disorders in executive control functions among aphasics and other brain-damaged patients. Journal of Clinical & Experimental Neuropsychology 12, 485-501, 1990.
26. 26. Goldberg, G. Supplementary motor area structure and function: Review and hypotheses. Behavioural Brain Science 8, 567-616, 1985.
27. 27. Grasby, P. M., Frith, C. D., Friston, K. J., Simpson, J., Fletcher, P. C., Frackowiak, R. S. J. and Dolan, R. J. A graded task approach to the functional mapping of brain areas implicated in auditory-verbal memory. Brain 117, 1271-1282, 1994.
28. 28. Grasby, P. M., Frith, C. D., Paulesu, E., Friston, K. J., Frackowiak, R. S. J. and Dolan, R. J. The effect of the muscarinic antagonist scopolamine on regional cerebral blood flow during the performance of a memory task. Experimental Brain Research 104, 337-348, 1995.
29. 29. Haxby, J. V., Horwitz, B., Ungerleider, L. G., Maisong, J. M., Pietrini, P. and Grady, C. L. The functional organization of human extrastriate cortex: A PET-rCBF study of selective attention to faces and locations. Journal of Neuroscience 14, 6336-6353, 1994.
30. 30. Heilman, K. M. and Valenstein, E. Mechanisms underlying hemispatial neglect. Annals of Neurology 5, 166-170, 1979.
31. 31. Jenkins, I. H., Brooks, D. J., Nixon, P. D., Frackowiak, R. S. J. and Passingham, R. E. Motor sequence learning: A study with positron emission tomography. Journal of Neuroscience 14, 3775-3790, 1994.
32. 32. Jones, G. M. M., Sahakian, B. J., Levy, R., Warburton, D. M. and Gray, J. A. Effects of acute subcutaneous nicotine on attention, information processing and short-term memory in Alzheimer's disease. Psychopharmacology 108, 485-494, 1992.
33. 33. LaBerge, D. Attentional Processing: The Brain's Art of Mindfulness, pp. 166-172. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1995.
34. 34. LaBerge, D. and Buchsbaum, M. S. Positron emission tomographic measurements of pulvinar activity during an attention task. Journal of Neuroscience 10, 613-619, 1990.
35. 35. McNicol, D. A Primer of Signal Detection Theory. George Allen and Unwin Ltd, London, 1972.
36. 36. Mennemeier, M. S., Chatterjee, A., Watson, R. T., Wertman, E., Carter, L. P. and Heilman, K. M. Contributions of the parietal and frontal lobes to sustained attention and habituation. Neuropsychologia 32, 703-716, 1994.
37. 37. Mesulam, M. M. A cortical network for directed attention and unilateral neglect. Annals of Neurology 10, 309-325, 1981.
38. 38. Parasuraman, R. The psychobiology of sustained attention. Sustained Attention in Human Performance, J.S. Warm (Editor), pp. 61-101. John Wiley and Sons, U.K., 1984.
39. 39. Pardo, J. V., Fox, P. T. and Raichle, M. E. Localization of a human system for sustained attention by positron emission tomography. Nature 349, 61-64, 1991.
40. 40. Pardo, J. V., Pardo, P. J., Janer, K. W. and Raichle, M. E. The anterior cingulate cortex mediates processing selection in the Stroop attentional conflict paradigm. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 87, 256-259, 1990.
41. 41. Passingham, R. The Frontal Lobes and Voluntary Action, pp. 69-102. Oxford University Press, U.K., 1993.
42. 42. Paulesu, E., Frith, C. D., Frackowiak, R. S. J. The neural correlates of the verbal component of working memory. Nature 362, 342-345, 1993.
43. 43. Petrides, M., Alivisatos, B., Meyer, E. and Evans, A. C. Functional activation of the human frontal cortex during the performance of verbal working memory tasks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science U.S.A. 90, 878-882, 1993.
44. 44. Posner, M. I. Orienting of attention. Quarterly Journal of experimental Psychology 32, 3-25, 1980.
45. 45. Posner, M. I. and Petersen, S. E. The attention system of the human brain. Annual Review of Neuroscience 13, 25-42, 1990.
46. 46. Posner, M. I., Walker, J. A., Friedrich, F. J. and Rafal, R. D. Effects of parietal injury in covert orienting of attention. Journal of Neuroscience 4, 1863-1874, 1984.
47. 47. Robertson, I. H., Tegner, R., Tham, K., Lo, A. and Nimmo-Smith, I. Sustained attention training for unilateral neglect: Theoretical and rehabilitation implications. Journal of Clinical experimental Neuropsychology 17, 416-430, 1995.
48. 48. Rosvold, K. E., Mirsky, A. F., Sarason, I., Bransome, E. D. and Beck, L. H. A continuous performance test of brain damage. Journal of Consulting Psychology 20, 343-350, 1956.
49. 49. Sahakian, B. J., Jones, G. M. M., Levy, R., Gray, J. A. and Warburton, D. M. The effects of nicotine on attention, information processing, and short-term memory in patients with dementia of the Alzheimer type. British Journal of Psychiatry 154, 797-800, 1989.
50. 50. Sahgal, A. Some limitations of indices derived from signal detection theory: Evaluation of an alternative index for measuring bias in memory tasks. Psychopharmacology 91, 517-520, 1987.
51. 51. Shallice, T. From Neuropsychology to Mental Structure. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988.
52. 52. Talairach, J. and Tourneaux, P. A Co-planar Stereotactic Atlas of a Human Brain. Thieme, Stuttgart, 1988.
53. 53. Vandenberghe, R., Duncan, J., Dupont, P., Ward, R., Bormans, G., Mortelmans, L. and Orban, G. Superior parietal blood flow depends on the number of attended attributes. Human Brain Mapping Supplement, 1, 269, 1995.
54. 54. Vogt, B. A., Finch, D. M. and Olson, C. M. Functional heterogeneity in cingulate cortex: The anterior executive and posterior evaluative regions. Cerebral Cortex 2, 435-443, 1993.
55. 55. Wesnes, K. and Warburton, D. M. Effects of scopolamine and nicotine on human rapid information processing performance. Psychopharmacology 82, 147-150, 1984.
56. 56. Whitehead, R. Right hemisphere processing superiority during sustained visual attention. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 3, 329-334, 1991.
57. 57. Wildt, A. R. and Ahtola, O. T. Analysis of covariance. University papers: Quantitative applications in the social sciences series, No. 12). Sage Publications, Beverley Hills, CA, 1978.
58. 58. Wilkins, A. J., Shallice, T. and McCarthy, R. Frontal lesions and sustained attention. Neuropsychologia 25, 359-365, 1987.
59. 59. Woods, D. L. and Knight, R. T. Electrophysiologic evidence of increased distractibility after dorsolateral prefrontal lesions. Neurology 36, 212-216, 1986.