Where and when to pay attention: The neural systems for directing attention to spatial locations and to time intervals as revealed by both PET and fMRI

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 18, 1998, Pages 7426-7435

  Coull, Jennifer T ^a   Nobre, Anna C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Imaging; Lateralization; Orienting; Parietal; Space; Time

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032530364     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-18-07426.1998     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Corbetta M (1998) Frontoparietal cortical networks for directing attention and the eye to visual locations: identical, independent, or overlapping neural systems? Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 95:831-838.
2. Corbetta M, Miezin F, Shulman G, Petersen SE (1993) A PET study of visuospatial attention. J Neurosci 13:1202-1226.
3. Coull JT, Frith CD, Frackowiak RSJ, Grasby PM (1996) A frontoparietal network for rapid visual information processing: a PET study of sustained attention and working memory. Neuropsychologia 34:1085-1095.
4. Coull JT, Frackowiak RSJ, Frith CD (1998) Monitoring for target objects: activation of right frontal and parietal cortices with increasing time on task. Neuropsychologia, in press.
5. Deiber M-P, Ibanez V, Sadato N, Hallett M (1996) Cerebral structures participating in motor preparation in humans: a positron emission tomography study. J Neurophysiol 75:233-247.
6. Fiez JA, Raichle ME, Miezin FM, Petersen SE, Tallal P, Katz WF (1995) PET studies of auditory and phonological processing effects of stimulus characteristics and task demands. J Cogn Neurosci 7:357-375.
7. Friston KJ, Frith CD, Liddle PF, Dolan RJ, Lammertsma AA, Frackowiak RSJ (1990) The relationship between global and local changes in PET scans. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 10:458-466.
8. Friston KJ, Frith C, Liddle P, Frackowiak R (1991) Comparing functional (PET) images: the assessment of significant change. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 11:690-699.
9. Friston K J, Ashburner J, Poline J-B, Frith CD, Heather JD, Frackowiak RSJ (1995a) Spatial registration and normalisation of images. Hum Brain Mapp 2:165-189.
10. Friston KJ, Holmes AP, Worsley KJ, Poline J-P, Frith CD, Frackowiak RSJ (1995b) Statistical parametric maps in functional imaging: a general linear approach. Hum Brain Mapp 2:189-210.
11. Hammond GR (1982) Hemispheric differences in temporal resolution. Brain Cogn 1:95-118.
12. Harrington DL, Haaland KY, Knight RT (1998) Cortical networks underlying mechanisms of time perception. J Neurosci 18:1085-1095.
13. Hazeltine E, Helmuth LL, Ivry RB (1997) Neural mechanisms of timing. Trends Cognit Sci 1:163-169.
14. Husain M, Shapiro K, Martin J, Kennard C (1997) Abnormal temporal dynamics of visual attention in spatial neglect patients. Nature 385:154-156.
15. Ivry RB, Keele SW (1989) Timing functions of the cerebellum. J Cogn Neurosci 1:136-152.
16. Jueptner IH, Rijntes M, Weiller C, Faiss JH, Timmann D, Mueller SP, Diener HC (1995) Localization of a cerebellar timing process using PET. Neurology 45:1540-1545.
17. Kingstone A (1992) Combining expectancies. Q J Exp Psychol 44[A]:69-104.
18. Kinsbourne M (1987) Mechanisms of unilateral neglect. In: Neurophysiological and neuropsychological aspects of spatial attention (Jeannerod M, ed). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
19. Krams M, Rushworth MFS, Deiber M-P, Frackowiak RSJ, Passingham RE (1998) The preparation, execution, and suppression of copied movements in the human brain. Exp Brain Res 120:386-398.
20. Mangun GR (1995) Neural mechanisms of visual selective attention. Psychophysiology 32:4-18.
21. Merzenich MM, Jenkins WM, Johnston P, Schreiber C, Miller SL, Tallal P (1996) Temporal processing deficits of language-learning impaired children ameliorated by training. Science 271:77-81.
22. Mesulam MM (1981) A cortical network for directed attention and unilateral neglect. Arch Neurol 10:304-325.
23. Mesulam MM (1990) Large scale neurocognitive networks and distributed processing for attention, language, and memory. Ann Neurol 28:597-613.
24. Nichelli P, Clark K, Hollnagel C, Grafman J (1995) Duration processing after frontal lobe lesions. Ann NY Acad Sci 769:183-190.
25. Nichelli P, Alway D, Grafman J (1996) Perceptual timing in cerebellar degeneration. Neuropsychologia 34:863-871.
26. Nobre AC, Gitelman DR, Sebestyen GN, Meyer J, Frackowiak RSJ, Frith CD, Mesulam MM (1997) Functional localisation of the system for visuospatial attention using positron emission tomography. Brain 120:515-533.
27. Nobre AC, Dias EC, Gitelman DR, Mesulam MM (1998) The overlap of brain regions that control saccades and covert visual spatial attention revealed by fMRI. Neuroimage 7:59.
28. Pardo JV, Fox PT, Raichle ME (1991) Localization of a human system for sustained attention by positron emission tomography. Nature 349:61-64.