Anticipatory Biasing of Visuospatial Attention Indexed by Retinotopically Specific α-Bank Electroencephalography Increases over Occipital Cortex

By M. Worden, John J. Foxe, Norman Wang, G. V. Simpson. Journal of Neuroscience, 2000

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Alpha-band (8-14 Hz) oscillatory EEG activity was examined with high-density scalp electrical recording during the cue-stimulus interval of an endogenous spatial cueing paradigm. In different blocks, cued spatial locations (left or right) were in either the upper or lower visual field, and attended stimuli were either oriented Ts or moving dots. Distractor stimuli were equally likely in the uncued hemifield. Sustained focal increases of alpha-band activity were seen over occipital cortex contralateral to the direction of the to-be-ignored location (ipsilateral to the cued direction of attention) before onset of the to-be-attended stimulus. The focus of alpha-band activity also moved depending on whether cued locations were in the upper or lower field. Results are consistent with active gating of uncued spatial locations.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience

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Rhythms For Cognition: Communication Through Coherence (2015, neutral): “The alpha rhythm is strong in cortex that is not activated by a stimulus and/or not addressed by top-down influences like attention (Fries et al., 2008; van Ede et al., 2011; Worden et al., 2000).”
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Brainstorm: A User-Friendly Application for MEG/EEG Analysis (2011, background): “Data can be analyzed as instantaneous measurements, or grouped into temporal and spectral bands of interest such as alpha (8–12Hz) [26, 49], theta (5–7Hz) [50–53], and so forth.”
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