Neural Systems for Visual Orienting and Their Relationships to Spatial Working Memory

By Maurizio Corbetta, J. Kincade, Gordon L. Shulman. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2002

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We investigated neural correlates of human visual orienting using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). When subjects voluntarily directed attention to a peripheral location, we recorded robust and sustained signals uniquely from the intraparietal sulcus (IPs) and superior frontal cortex (near the frontal eye field, FEF). In the ventral IPs and FEF only, the blood oxygen level dependent signal was modulated by the direction of attention. The IPs and FEF also maintained the most sustained level of activation during a 7-sec delay, when subjects maintained attention at the peripheral cued location (working memory). Therefore, the IPs and FEF form a dorsal network that controls the endogenous allocation and maintenance of visuospatial attention. A separate right hemisphere network was activated by the detection of targets at unattended locations. Activation was largely independent of the target's location (visual field). This network included among other regions the right temporo-parietal junction and the inferior frontal gyrus. We propose that this cortical network is important for reorienting to sensory events.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience

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Prediction, Cognition and the Brain (2009, background): “For example, errors of prediction which are irrelevant for the current mental set or refl ect noise in the environment can be registered and ignored, allowing the individual to reorient himself to the task at hand (Escera et al., 2000; Corbetta et al., 2002).”
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Controlled & automatic processing: behavior, theory, and biological mechanisms (2003, background): “Specifically, neuroimaging studies have shown this region to be active in tasks that require frequent shifting of attention ( Corbetta, Kincade, & Shulman, 2002; LaBar, Gitelman, Parrish, & Mesulam, 1999).”
Breakdown of functional connectivity in frontoparietal networks underlies behavioral deficits in spatial neglect. (2007, neutral): “Previous studies in healthy subjects indicate that the dorsal network mediates control of spatial attention with a contralateral bias (Corbetta et al., 2002; Macaluso et al., 2002; Sereno (A) pIPS ROI (red) overlaid on patient’s own anatomical image.”
Neural activity that predicts subsequent memory and forgetting: A meta-analysis of 74 fMRI studies (2011, background): “Both a leading visual attention model (Corbetta et al., 2002; Corbetta et al., 2008) and meta-analyses of attention and working memory studies (Owen et al., 2005; Wager et al., 2004) suggest perhaps a frontoparietal network, including both the PMC and PPC, supports attention during encoding.”
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Using neuroimaging to evaluate models of working memory and their implications for language processing (2003, background): “We argue below that this novel perspective on the role of parietal cortex in working memory is useful, though we acknowledge the fact there is debate in the neuroimaging and neurophysiological literatures about the precise attentional operations supported by parietal cortex ( Corbetta, Kincade, & Sh”
Neurocircuitry of Mood Disorders (2010, background): “In addition to its role in control of saccadic eye movements, the caudal system may be part of the dorsal attention system (Corbetta et al, 2002).”
The intrinsic functional organization of the brain is altered in autism (2008, background): “The three task-positive seed regions (defined from a previous independent study of visual attention (Corbetta et al., 2002)) were the left intraparietal sulcus (−25, −57, 46), the right superior precentral sulcus (25, −13, 50), and the left middle temporal region (−45, −69, −2), while the three…”
Functional dissociations within the inferior parietal cortex in verbal working memory (2004, background): “, 2000), attentionally reactivating sources of information in neural regions (Corbetta et al., 2002), or task preparation (Sohn et al.”
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Understanding others' actions and goals by mirror and mentalizing systems: A meta-analysis (2009, positive): “The TPJ is not active while only the cue is present (before the target is shown; see Corbetta et al., 2000, 2002), so orientation to an external target at a novel place is what drives this effect.”
Coherent spontaneous activity identifies a hippocampal-parietal memory network. (2006, methodology): “The MT! seed regions were centered on coordinates obtained from a previous fMRI study of coherent motion detection (Corbetta et al. 2002).”
Communication Efficiency and Congestion of Signal Traffic in Large-Scale Brain Networks (2014, background): “Many of these areas are part of the dorsal attention sub-network [28–30], which presumably must be continually responsive and capable of rapidly integrating and communicating information.”