The Attention System of the Human Brain: 20 Years After

By Steven E. Petersen, Michael I. Posner. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 2012

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Here, we update our 1990 Annual Review of Neuroscience article, “The Attention System of the Human Brain.” The framework presented in the original article has helped to integrate behavioral, systems, cellular, and molecular approaches to common problems in attention research. Our framework has been both elaborated and expanded in subsequent years. Research on orienting and executive functions has supported the addition of new networks of brain regions. Developmental studies have shown important changes in control systems between infancy and childhood. In some cases, evidence has supported the role of specific genetic variations, often in conjunction with experience, that account for some of the individual differences in the efficiency of attentional networks. The findings have led to increased understanding of aspects of pathology and to some new interventions.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental health

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Precision functional mapping of individual human brains (2017, neutral): “…of individuals, neuroscientists have been able to reliably identify central tendencies of both task-induced activation patterns (Martin, 2007; Petersen and Posner, 2012; Rugg and Vilberg, 2013; Wager and Smith, 2003) and the large-scale network organization of the brain (Beckmann et al.,…”
Attention Restoration Theory: Exploring the Role of Soft Fascination and Mental Bandwidth (2019, background): “The volitional control of attention has been linked to a set of regions in the brain known as the executive network (Petersen & Posner, 2012).”
Working memory, attention and their relationship: A theoretical overview (2021, background): “The cingulo-opercular network is characterized by stable background maintenance for task performance, while the frontoparietal network is related to task switching, initiation, and adjustments within trials in real-time (Petersen & Posner, 2012).”
Superior Colliculus and Visual Spatial Attention (2013, background): “…E W S I N A D V A N C E Superior Colliculus and Visual Spatial Attention Richard J. Krauzlis,1,2 Lee P. Lovejoy,3 and Alexandre Zénon4 1Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA; email: richard.krauzlis@nih.gov…”
Enhancing attention through training (2015, background): “Consistent structural changes found in a metaanalysis [34 ] are in the ACC and insula parts of the executive attention network [7].”
Executive Function: Implications for Education. NCER 2017-2000. (2016, background): “Executive attention is distinct from more automatic alerting and orienting responses to stimulation (Petersen and Posner 2012).”
Executive function in the first three years of life: precursors, predictors and patterns (2016, background): “…and ignore others (selective attention) and to shift between targets, and the executive attention network exerts top-down volitional control and recruits resources necessary for goal-directed behaviour, error detection and conflict resolution (Petersen & Posner, 2012; Posner & Petersen, 1990).”