The neural mechanisms of top-down attentional control. Hopfinger, J., Buonocore, M., & Mangun, G. Nat Neurosci, 3(3):284–91, 2000.
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Selective visual attention involves dynamic interplay between attentional control systems and sensory brain structures. We used event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during a cued spatial-attention task to dissociate brain activity related to attentional control from that related to selective processing of target stimuli. Distinct networks were engaged by attention-directing cues versus subsequent targets. Superior frontal, inferior parietal and superior temporal cortex were selectively activated by cues, indicating that these structures are part of a network for voluntary attentional control. This control biased activity in multiple visual cortical areas, resulting in selective sensory processing of relevant visual targets.
@article{hopfinger_neural_2000,
	title = {The neural mechanisms of top-down attentional control},
	volume = {3},
	url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=10700262},
	doi = {10/dg5877},
	abstract = {Selective visual attention involves dynamic interplay between attentional control systems and sensory brain structures. We used event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during a cued spatial-attention task to dissociate brain activity related to attentional control from that related to selective processing of target stimuli. Distinct networks were engaged by attention-directing cues versus subsequent targets. Superior frontal, inferior parietal and superior temporal cortex were selectively activated by cues, indicating that these structures are part of a network for voluntary attentional control. This control biased activity in multiple visual cortical areas, resulting in selective sensory processing of relevant visual targets.},
	number = {3},
	journal = {Nat Neurosci},
	author = {Hopfinger, J.B. and Buonocore, M.H. and Mangun, G.R.},
	year = {2000},
	keywords = {\#nosource, *Brain Mapping, Attention/*physiology, Cerebral Cortex/cytology/*physiology, Color, Cues, Evoked Potentials/physiology, Eye Movements/physiology, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Neurons/*physiology, Photic Stimulation, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Space Perception/physiology, Visual Fields/physiology, Visual Perception/*physiology},
	pages = {284--91},
}

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