Parietal cortex and attention.

By Marlene Behrmann, Joy J. Geng, Sarah Shomstein. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2004

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The parietal lobe forms about 20% of the human cerebral cortex and is divided into two major regions, the somatosensory cortex and the posterior parietal cortex. Posterior parietal cortex, located at the junction of multiple sensory regions, projects to several cortical and subcortical areas and is engaged in a host of cognitive operations. One such operation is selective attention, the process where by the input is filtered and a subset of the information is selected for preferential processing. Recent neuroimaging and neuropsychological studies have provided a more fine-grained understanding of the relationship between brain and behavior in the domain of selective attention.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience

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Reading normal and degraded words: Contribution of the dorsal and ventral visual pathways (2008, background): “…parietal regions are active during extremely different attention tasks, including peripheral attention shifting, sustained attention to parafoveal locations, and temporal attention to feature conjunctions (for reviews see Behrmann et al., 2004; Kanwisher and Wojciulik, 2000a; Pessoa et al., 2003).”
Visual Topography of Human Intraparietal Sulcus (2007, background): “…judgments, motor planning, and working memory (for review, see Kastner and Ungerleider, 2000; Culham and Kanwisher, 2001; Yantis and Serences, 2003; Behrmann et al., 2004; Grefkes and Fink, 2005; Hubbard et al., 2005; Merriam and Colby, 2005; Mesulam et al., 2005; Wagner et al., 2005; Buneo and…”
Playing an Action Video Game Reduces Gender Differences in Spatial Cognition (2007, background): “…neuroimaging has linked mental rotation tasks to selective attention and the spatial distribution of attention; the right posterior parietal cortex (PPC) is strongly activated during tasks involving attention (e.g., Behrmann, Geng, & Shomstein, 2004) and mental rotation (e.g., Cohen et al., 1996).”
Network centrality in the human functional connectome. (2012, neutral): “in attentional control (Behrmann et al. 2004).”
fMRI Reactivity to High-Calorie Food Pictures Predicts Short- and Long-Term Outcome in a Weight-Loss Program (2012, background): “The fronto-parietal attention network, of which the MFG, SPL, and IPL are components, is suggested to be involved in top-down attentional control of the visual cortex, with a bias towards more emotionally-primed, or salient, stimuli (e.g., Pessoa et al., 2002).”
Precursor form of brain‐derived neurotrophic factor and mature brain‐derived neurotrophic factor are decreased in the pre‐clinical stages of Alzheimer's disease (2005, background): “These pathways are important for cognitive function (Behrmann et al. 2004; Hedden and Gabrieli 2004) and therefore decreased proBDNF and BDNF in the early stages of AD could compromise these synaptic connections.”