A rhythmic theory of attention

By Ian C. Fiebelkorn, Sabine Kastner. 2018

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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The Inferior Frontal Sulcus, not the Anterior Insula, acts as a late-stage attentional gate for the fast rejection of salient but irrelevant sensory inputs during cognitive tasks (2025, unknown): “Interestingly, the timing of IFS activity is also compatible with an-279 other inﬂuential account of attention—the rhythmic model ( Fiebelkorn and Kastner, 2019 )—which proposes that attention samples the environment in cycles as short as 250 ms.”
Theta activity and cognitive functioning: Integrating evidence from resting-state and task-related developmental electroencephalography (EEG) research (2024, background): “Past research suggests that spatial attention samples the environment in theta cycles, with alternating periods of enhanced or attenuated perceptual sensitivity (Dugu ´ e et al., 2015; Fiebelkorn et al., 2013; Landau and Fries, 2012; for a review, see Fiebelkorn and Kastner, 2019).”
Neurophysiological mechanisms of cognition in the developing brain: Insights from intracranial EEG studies (2023, background): “…and thus provide optimal time windows to coordinate activity within and between brain regions to support cognition (Buzs ´ aki et al., 2012, 2013; Buzsaki and Draguhn, 2004; Canolty and Knight, 2010; Fiebelkorn and Kastner, 2019; Fries, 2005, 2015; Helfrich et al., 2018; Lisman and Jensen, 2013).”
Rhythms of human attention and memory: An embedded process perspective (2022, background): “…(Lisman and Jensen, 2013), WM (Lisman, 2010; Roux and Uhlhaas, 2014), and LTM processes (Hanslmayr et al., 2016), as well as the role of the theta and alpha rhythm in attentional sampling (VanRullen, 2016; Fiebelkorn and Kastner, 2019) and gating (Jensen and Mazaheri, 2010; Klimesch, 2012).”
Multimodal neuroimaging of hierarchical cognitive control. (2024, background): “This has been supported by ample evidence of an involvement of theta oscillations in the modulation of perceptual sensitivity under conditions that promote ‘sustained ’ attention at a cued location (Fiebelkorn et al., 2018; Fiebelkorn & Kastner, 2019; Helfrich et al., 2018).”
Non-Target Suppression Supports the Formation of Representational Prioritization Under High Working Memory Load (2025, unknown): “Frontal theta rhythms (4~8 Hz) are believed to play a central role in maintaining task goals and regulating prioritization, supporting the rhythmic allocation of attentional resources [17,22,23].”
Enhancing visual working memory in schizophrenia: effects of frontoparietal theta tACS in low-performing patients (2024, background): “Speci ﬁ cally, Fiebelkorn and Kastner 52 proposed a rhythmic theory of attention, stating that intrinsic theta rhythms help resolve potential functional con ﬂ icts by periodically adjusting the operational connections between higher-order brain regions and sensory or motor areas.”
Cognition is an emergent property (2024, unknown): “This is in line with observations that power and coupling in gamma versus alpha/beta are respectively associated with bottom-up processing versus top-down control [9,10,22,23,27–30].”
Neural signatures of competition between voluntary and involuntary influences over the focus of attention in visual working memory (2023, background): “…cortex) involved in assessing the need for and regulation of the level of cognitive control (e.g., de Vries, Savran, van Driel, & Olivers, 2019; Fiebelkorn & Kastner, 2019; Helfrich et al., 2018; de Vries, van Driel, & Olivers, 2017; Sauseng, Hoppe, Klimesch, Gerloff, & Hummel, 2007; de Araújo…”
Slow neural oscillations explain temporal fluctuations in distractibility (2023, unknown): “…and waning of attentional sampling may index inter-areal coordination between the attentional network and the sensory areas of the brain (Dugué & VanRullen, 2017), which is associated with the alternation between stronger and weaker attentional sampling over time (Fiebelkorn & Kastner, 2019).”
Prioritizing flexible working memory representations through retrospective attentional strengthening (2023, unknown): “A recent opinion proposed that rhythmic attention is a basis of cognitive flexibility (Fiebelkorn and Kastner, 2019).”
Large-scale frontoparietal theta, alpha, and beta phase synchronization: A set of EEG differential characteristics for freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease? (2022, background): “A recent study indicated that theta rhythms temporally resolve potential functional conflicts by periodically reweighting functional connections between higher-order brain regions and sensory or motor regions (Fiebelkorn and Kastner, 2019).”