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The human endogenous attentional control network includes a ventro-temporal cortical node
Endogenous attention is the cognitive function that selects the relevant pieces of sensory information to achieve goals and it is known to be controlled by dorsal fronto-parietal brain areas. Here we expand this notion by identifying a control attention area located in the temporal lobe. By combinin...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7810878/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33452252 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20583-5 |
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author | Sani, Ilaria Stemmann, Heiko Caron, Bradley Bullock, Daniel Stemmler, Torsten Fahle, Manfred Pestilli, Franco Freiwald, Winrich A. |
author_facet | Sani, Ilaria Stemmann, Heiko Caron, Bradley Bullock, Daniel Stemmler, Torsten Fahle, Manfred Pestilli, Franco Freiwald, Winrich A. |
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description | Endogenous attention is the cognitive function that selects the relevant pieces of sensory information to achieve goals and it is known to be controlled by dorsal fronto-parietal brain areas. Here we expand this notion by identifying a control attention area located in the temporal lobe. By combining a demanding behavioral paradigm with functional neuroimaging and diffusion tractography, we show that like fronto-parietal attentional areas, the human posterior inferotemporal cortex exhibits significant attentional modulatory activity. This area is functionally distinct from surrounding cortical areas, and is directly connected to parietal and frontal attentional regions. These results show that attentional control spans three cortical lobes and overarches large distances through fiber pathways that run orthogonally to the dominant anterior-posterior axes of sensory processing, thus suggesting a different organizing principle for cognitive control. |
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spelling | pubmed-78108782021-01-21 The human endogenous attentional control network includes a ventro-temporal cortical node Sani, Ilaria Stemmann, Heiko Caron, Bradley Bullock, Daniel Stemmler, Torsten Fahle, Manfred Pestilli, Franco Freiwald, Winrich A. Nat Commun Article Endogenous attention is the cognitive function that selects the relevant pieces of sensory information to achieve goals and it is known to be controlled by dorsal fronto-parietal brain areas. Here we expand this notion by identifying a control attention area located in the temporal lobe. By combining a demanding behavioral paradigm with functional neuroimaging and diffusion tractography, we show that like fronto-parietal attentional areas, the human posterior inferotemporal cortex exhibits significant attentional modulatory activity. This area is functionally distinct from surrounding cortical areas, and is directly connected to parietal and frontal attentional regions. These results show that attentional control spans three cortical lobes and overarches large distances through fiber pathways that run orthogonally to the dominant anterior-posterior axes of sensory processing, thus suggesting a different organizing principle for cognitive control. Nature Publishing Group UK 2021-01-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7810878/ /pubmed/33452252 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20583-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Sani, Ilaria Stemmann, Heiko Caron, Bradley Bullock, Daniel Stemmler, Torsten Fahle, Manfred Pestilli, Franco Freiwald, Winrich A. The human endogenous attentional control network includes a ventro-temporal cortical node |
title | The human endogenous attentional control network includes a ventro-temporal cortical node |
title_full | The human endogenous attentional control network includes a ventro-temporal cortical node |
title_fullStr | The human endogenous attentional control network includes a ventro-temporal cortical node |
title_full_unstemmed | The human endogenous attentional control network includes a ventro-temporal cortical node |
title_short | The human endogenous attentional control network includes a ventro-temporal cortical node |
title_sort | human endogenous attentional control network includes a ventro-temporal cortical node |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7810878/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33452252 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20583-5 |
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