Spontaneous EEG oscillations reveal periodic sampling of visual attention

By Niko A. Busch, R. VanRullen. 2010

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Causal Evidence for a Role of Theta and Alpha Oscillations in the Control of Working Memory (2020, result): “These results are consistent with prior observations that theta and alpha oscillations are often anti-correlated [42, 43, 47], and that functional connectivity between brain regions displays increased alpha coherence with suppressed neural activity and increased theta coherence with active processin”
Causal Evidence for the Role of Neuronal Oscillations in Top-Down and Bottom-Up Attention (2019, unknown): “Finally, theta frequency has been implicated in the rhythmic sampling of visual information (Fiebelkorn, Pinsk, & Kastner, 2018; Helfrich et al., 2018; Busch & VanRullen, 2010); however, these studies often rely on stimuli to be presented over a longer epoch on the order of seconds.”
Theta activity and cognitive functioning: Integrating evidence from resting-state and task-related developmental electroencephalography (EEG) research (2024, background): “For example, Busch and VanRullen (2010) demonstrated that visual detection performance for attended stimuli in human adults fluctuated over time.”
Spontaneous α Brain Dynamics Track the Episodic “When” (2023, background): “Last, timing tasks typically address short time-scales that are below a few seconds with a repeated number of trials time-locked to stimulations (Busch and VanRullen, 2010; Hanslmayr et al., 2011; Chakravarthi and VanRullen, 2012; Jensen et al., 2012; Landau and Fries, 2012; Grabot et al., 2017,…”
The temporal dynamics of how the brain structures natural scenes. (2023, unknown): “…(Cavanagh, Frank, Klein, & Allen, 2010, 2012; Cavanagh & Frank, 2014), which is also important during attentional sampling of the environment ( Busch & VanRullen, 2010; Fiebelkorn et al., 2013; Kienitz et al., 2018; Landau & Fries, 2012; Spyropoulos, Bosman, & Fries, 2018; VanRullen & Dubois,…”
Shared resources between visual attention and visual working memory are allocated through rhythmic sampling (2019, background): “…2007) suggested that when attention is split among potential task-relevant locations, a sequential strategy of sampling is used and, moreover, this sampling of information might be a rhythmic phenomenon with a periodicity of ∼7 Hz (VanRullen et al. 2007; Busch & VanRullen, 2010; VanRullen 2016).”
Functional Specialization in the Attention Network (2019, background): “Recent work, however, has shown that spatial attention is discontinuous, sampling the visual environment in rhythmic cycles (Busch & VanRullen 2010, Fiebelkorn et al. 2018, Helfrich et al. 2018,Jia et al. 2017, Landau et al. 2015).”