Delayed striate cortical activation during spatial attention.
Journal Article (Journal Article)
Recordings of event-related potentials (ERPs) and event-related magnetic fields (ERMFs) were combined with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study visual cortical activity in humans during spatial attention. While subjects attended selectively to stimulus arrays in one visual field, fMRI revealed stimulus-related activations in the contralateral primary visual cortex and in multiple extrastriate areas. ERP and ERMF recordings showed that attention did not affect the initial evoked response at 60-90 ms poststimulus that was localized to primary cortex, but a similarly localized late response at 140-250 ms was enhanced to attended stimuli. These findings provide evidence that the primary visual cortex participates in the selective processing of attended stimuli by means of delayed feedback from higher visual-cortical areas.
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Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Noesselt, T; Hillyard, SA; Woldorff, MG; Schoenfeld, A; Hagner, T; Jäncke, L; Tempelmann, C; Hinrichs, H; Heinze, H-J
Published Date
- August 1, 2002
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 35 / 3
Start / End Page
- 575 - 587
PubMed ID
- 12165478
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 0896-6273
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1016/s0896-6273(02)00781-x
Language
- eng
Conference Location
- United States