Visual and auditory alertness: Modality-specific and supramodal neural mechanisms and their modulation by nicotine

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 2758-2768

  Thiel, Christiane M ^a,b,c   Fink, Gereon R ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b Department of Medicine   (Germany)

^c Brain Imaging Center West   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE;

ADULT; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY CORTEX; VISION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34147154729     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00017.2007     Document Type: Article

References (71)

1. Bellgrove MA, Dockree PM, Aimola L, Robertson IH. Attenuation of spatial attentional asymmetries with poor sustained attention. Neuroreport 15: 1065-1069, 2004.
2. Benowitz NL, Porchet H, Sheiner L, Jacob P 3rd. Nicotine absorption and cardiovascular effects with smokeless tobacco use: comparison with cigarettes and nicotine gum. Clin Pharmacol Ther 44: 23-28, 1988.
3. Berridge CW, Waterhouse BD. The locus coeruleus-noradrenergic system: modulation of behavioral state and state-dependent cognitive processes. Brain Res Brain Res Rev 42: 33-84, 2003.
4. Bond A, Lader M. The use of analogue scales in rating subjective feelings. Br J Med Psychol 47: 211-218, 1974.
5. Bullmore E, Suckling J, Zelaya F, Long C, Honey G, Reed L, Routledge C, Ng V, Fletcher P, Brown J, Williams SC. Practice and difficulty evoke anatomically and pharmacologically dissociable brain activation dynamics. Cereb Cortex 13: 144-154, 2003.
6. Callejas A, Lupianez J, Tudela P. The three attentional networks: on their independence and interactions. Brain Cogn 54: 225-227, 2004.
7. Calvert GA, Bullmore ET, Brammer MJ, Campbell R, Williams SC, McGuire PK, Woodruff PW, Iversen SD, David AS. Activation of auditory cortex during silent lipreading. Science 276: 593-596, 1997.
8. Chambers CD, Stokes MG, Mattingley JB. Modality-specific control of strategic spatial attention in parietal cortex. Neuron 44: 925-930, 2004.
9. Cohen YE, Cohen IS, Gifford GW 3rd. Modulation of LIP activity by predictive auditory and visual cues. Cereb Cortex 14: 1287-1301, 2004.
10. Corbetta M, Kincade JM, Ollinger JM, McAvoy MP, Shulman GL. Voluntary orienting is dissociated from target detection in human posterior parietal cortex. Nat Neurosci 3: 292-297, 2000.
11. Corbetta M, Shulman GL. Control of goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention in the brain. Nat Rev Neurosci 3: 201-215, 2002.
12. Coull JT, Frackowiak RS, Frith CD. Monitoring for target objects: activation of right frontal and parietal cortices with increasing time on task. Neuropsychologia 36: 1325-1334, 1998.
13. Coull JT, Jones ME, Egan TD, Frith CD, Maze M. Attentional effects of noradrenaline vary with arousal level: selective activation of thalamic pulvinar in humans. Neuroimage 22: 315-322, 2004.
14. Coull JT, Nobre AC, Frith CD. The noradrenergic alpha2 agonist clonidine modulates behavioural and neuroanatomical correlates of human attentional orienting and alerting. Cereb Cortex 11: 73-84, 2001.
15. Davidson MC, Cutrell EB, Marrocco RT. Scopolamine slows the orienting of attention in primates to cued visual targets. Psychopharmacology 142: 1-8, 1999.
16. Downar J, Crawley AP, Mikulis DJ, Davis KD. A multimodal cortical network for the detection of changes in the sensory environment. Nat Neurosci 3: 277-283, 2000.
17. Eimer M, Driver J. Crossmodal links in endogenous and exogenous spatial attention: evidence from event-related brain potential studies. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 25: 497-511, 2001.
18. Ernst M, Matochik JA, Heishman SJ, Van Horn JD, Jons PH, Henningfield JE, London ED. Effect of nicotine on brain activation during performance of a working memory task. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 98: 4728-4733, 2001.
19. Fan J, McCandliss BD, Fossella J, Flombaum JI, Posner MI. The activation of attentional networks. Neuroimage 26: 471-479, 2005.
20. Fan J, McCandliss BD, Sommer T, Raz A, Posner MI. Testing the efficiency and independence of attentional networks. J Cogn Neurosci 14: 340-347, 2002.
21. Fernandez-Duque D, Posner MI. Relating the mechanisms of orienting and alerting. Neuropsychologia 35: 477-486, 1997.
22. Festa-Martino E, Ott BR, Heindel WC. Interactions between phasic alerting and spatial orienting: effects of normal aging and Alzheimer's disease. Neuropsychology 18: 258-268, 2004.
23. Fink GR, Marshall JC, Weiss PH, Toni I, Zilles K. Task instructions influence the cognitive strategies involved in line bisection judgements: evidence from modulated neural mechanisms revealed by fMRI. Neuropsychologia 40: 119-130, 2002.
24. Friedman J, Meares R. Tobacco smoking and cortical evoked potentials: an opposite effect on auditory and visual systems. Clin Exp Pharmacol Physiol 7: 609-615, 1980.
25. Friston KJ, Holmes AP, Worsley KJ, Poline J-P, Frith CD, Frackowiak RS. Statistical parametric maps in functional imaging: a general linear approach. Hum Brain Mapp 2: 189-210, 1995.
26. Ghatan PH, Ingvar M, Eriksson L, Stone-Elander S, Serrander M, Ekberg K, Wahren J. Cerebral effects of nicotine during cognition in smokers and non-smokers. Psychopharmacology 136: 179-189, 1998.
27. Giessing C, Thiel CM, Stephan KE, Rosler F, Fink GR. Visuospatial attention: how to measure effects of infrequent, unattended events in a blocked stimulus design. Neuroimage 23: 1370-1381, 2004.
28. Gollub RL, Breiter HC, Kantor H, Kennedy D, Gastfriend D, Mathew RT, Makris N, Guimaraes A, Riorden J, Campbell T, Foley M, Hyman SE, Rosen B, Weisskoff R. Cocaine decreases cortical cerebral blood flow but does not obscure regional activation in functional magnetic resonance imaging in human subjects. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 18: 724-734, 1998.
29. Hariri AR, Mattay VS, Tessitore A, Fera F, Smith WG, Weinberger DR. Dextroamphetamine modulates the response of the human amygdala. Neuropsychopharmacology 27: 1036-1040, 2002.
30. Heishman SJ, Henningfield JE. Tolerance to repeated nicotine administration on performance, subjective, and physiological responses in nonsmokers. Psychopharmacology 152: 321-333, 2000.
31. Hopfinger JB, Buonocore MH, Mangun GR. The neural mechanisms of top-down attentional control. Nat Neurosci 3: 284-291, 2000.
32. Husain M, Rorden C. Non-spatially lateralized mechanisms in hemispatial neglect. Nat Rev Neurosci 4: 26-36, 2003.
33. Jacobsen LK, Gore JC, Skudlarski P, Lacadie CM, Jatlow P, Krystal JH. Impact of intravenous nicotine on BOLD signal response to photic stimulation. Magn Reson Imaging 20: 141-145, 2002.
34. Johnson JA, Zatorre RJ. Attention to simultaneous unrelated auditory and visual events: behavioral and neural correlates. Cereb Cortex 15: 1609-1620, 2005.
35. Jones EG, Powell TP. An anatomical study of converging sensory pathways within the cerebral cortex of the monkey. Brain 93: 793-820, 1970.
36. Kirsch P, Esslinger C, Chen Q, Mier D, Lis S, Siddhanti S, Gruppe H, Mattay VS, Gallhofer B, Meyer-Lindenberg A. Oxytocin modulates neural circuitry for social cognition and fear in humans. J Neurosci 25: 11489-11493, 2005.
37. Konrad K, Neufang S, Thiel CM, Specht K, Hanisch C, Fan J, Herpertz-Dahlmann B, Fink GR. Development of attentional networks: an fMRI study with children and adults. Neuroimage 28: 429-439, 2005.
38. Lawrence NS, Ross TJ, Stein EA. Cognitive mechanisms of nicotine on visual attention. Neuron 36: 539-548, 2002.
39. Liu T, Pestilli F, Carrasco M. Transient attention enhances perceptual performance and fMRI response in human visual cortex. Neuron 45: 469-477, 2005.
40. Loose R, Kaufmann C, Auer DP, Lange KW. Human prefrontal and sensory cortical activity during divided attention tasks. Hum Brain Mapp 18: 249-259, 2003.
41. Luck SJ. Multiple mechanisms of visual-spatial attention: recent evidence from human electrophysiology. Behav Brain Res 71: 113-123, 1995.
42. Macaluso E, Frith CD, Driver J. Supramodal effects of covert spatial orienting triggered by visual or tactile events. J Cogn Neurosci 14: 389-401, 2002.
43. Mancuso G, Andres P, Ansseau M, Tirelli E. Effects of nicotine administered via a transdermal delivery system on vigilance: a repeated measure study. Psychopharmacology 142: 18-23, 1999.
44. Mancuso G, Lejeune M, Ansseau M. Cigarette smoking and attention: processing speed or specific effects? Psychopharmacology 155: 372-378, 2001.
45. Matsuhashi M, Ikeda A, Ohara S, Matsumoto R, Yamamoto J, Takayama M, Satow T, Begum T, Usui K, Nagamine T, Mikuni N, Takahashi J, Miyamoto S, Fukuyama H, Shibasaki H. Multisensory convergence at human temporo-parietal junction - epicortical recording of evoked responses. Clin Neurophysiol 115: 1145-1160, 2004.
46. Metherate R. Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in sensory cortex. Learn Mem 11: 50-59, 2004.
47. Nebes RD, Brady CB. Phasic and tonic alertness in Alzheimer's disease. Cortex 29: 77-90, 1993.
48. Nichols T, Brett M, Andersson J, Wager T, Poline JB. Valid conjunction inference with the minimum statistic. Neuroimage 25: 653-660, 2005.
49. Nyberg G, Panfilov V, Sivertsson R, Wilhelmsen L. Cardiovascular effect of nicotine chewing gum in healthy non-smokers. Eur J Clin Pharmacol 23: 303-307, 1982.
50. O'Leary DS, Andreasen NC, Hurtig RR, Torres IJ, Flashman LA, Kesler ML, Arndt SV, Cizadlo TJ, Ponto LLB, Watkins GL, Hichwa RD. Auditory and visual attention assessed with PET. Hum Brain Mapp 5: 422-436, 1997.
51. Patterson RD, Uppenkamp S, Johnsrude IS, Griffiths TD. The processing of temporal pitch and melody information in auditory cortex. Neuron 36: 767-776, 2002.
52. Paus T, Zatorre RJ, Hofle N, Caramanos Z, Gotman J, Petrides M, Evans AC. Time-related changes in neural systems underlying attention and arousal during the performance of an auditory vigilance task. J Cogn Neurosci 9: 392-408, 1997.
53. Peyrin C, Schwartz S, Seghier M, Michel C, Landis T, Vuilleumier P. Hemispheric specialization of human inferior temporal cortex during coarse-to-fine and fine-to-coarse analysis of natural visual scenes. Neuroimage 28: 464-473, 2005.
54. Posner MI, Boies SJ. Components of attention. Psychol Rev 78: 391-408, 1971.
55. Posner MI, Petersen SE. The attention system of the human brain. Annu Rev Neurosci 13: 25-42, 1990.
56. Robertson IH, Mattingley JB, Rorden C, Driver J. Phasic alerting of neglect patients overcomes their spatial deficit in visual awareness. Nature 395: 169-172, 1998.
57. Robertson IH, Tegner R, Tham K, Lo A, Nimmo-Smith I. Sustained attention training for unilateral neglect: theoretical and rehabilitation implications. J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 17: 416-430, 1995.
58. Salmeron BJ, Stein EA. Pharmacological applications of magnetic resonance imaging. Psychopharmacol Bull 36: 102-129, 2002.
59. Sarter M, Bruno JP. Cortical cholinergic inputs mediating arousal, attentional processing and dreaming: differential afferent regulation of the basal forebrain by telencephalic and brainstem afferents. Neuroscience 95: 933-952, 2000.
60. Stewart C, Burke S, Marrocco R. Cholinergic modulation of covert attention in the rat. Psychopharmacology 155: 210-218, 2001.
61. Sturm W, de Simone A, Krause BJ, Specht K, Hesselmann V, Radermacher I, Herzog H, Tellmann L, Muller-Gartner HW, Willmes K. Functional anatomy of intrinsic alertness: evidence for a fronto-parietal-thalamic-brainstem network in the right hemisphere. Neuropsychologia 37: 797-805, 1999.
62. Sturm W, Willmes K. On the functional neuroanatomy of intrinsic and phasic alertness. Neuroimage 14: S76-S84, 2001.
63. Tanaka K. Neuronal mechanisms of object recognition. Science 262: 685-688, 1993.
64. Thiel CM, Zilles K, Fink GR. Cerebral correlates of alerting, orienting and reorienting of visuospatial attention: an event-related fMRI study. Neuroimage 21: 318-328, 2004.
65. Thiel CM, Zilles K, Fink GR. Nicotine modulates reorienting of visuospatial attention and neural activity in human parietal cortex. Neuropsychopharmacology 30: 810-820, 2005.
66. Wesnes K, Warburton DM. Effects of smoking on rapid information processing performance. Neuropsychobiology 9: 223-229, 1983.
67. Wesnes K, Warburton DM. Effects of scopolamine and nicotine on human rapid information processing performance. Psychopharmacology 82: 147-150, 1984.
68. Wilkinson D, Halligan P. The relevance of behavioural measures for functional-imaging studies of cognition. Nat Rev Neurosci 5: 67-73, 2004.
69. Witte EA, Davidson MC, Marrocco RT. Effects of altering brain cholinergic activity on covert orienting of attention: comparison of monkey and human performance. Psychopharmacology 132: 324-334, 1997.
70. Witte EA, Marrocco RT. Alteration of brain noradrenergic activity in rhesus monkeys affects the alerting component of covert orienting. Psychopharmacology 132: 315-323, 1997.
71. Zilles K, Schleicher A, Palomero-Gallagher N, Amunts K. Quantitative analysis of cyto- and receptor architecture of the human brain. In: Brain Mapping: The Methods, edited by Toga AW, Mazziotta JC. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2002, p. 573-602.