Bottom-up and top-down factors differentially influence stimulus representations across large-scale attentional networks

NM Long, BA Kuhl - Journal of Neuroscience, 2018 - Soc Neuroscience
Visual attention is thought to be supported by three large-scale frontoparietal networks: the
frontoparietal control network (FPCN), the dorsal attention network (DAN), and the ventral …

[HTML][HTML] Selective visual attention to drive cognitive brain–machine interfaces: from concepts to neurofeedback and rehabilitation applications

E Astrand, C Wardak, S Ben Hamed - Frontiers in systems …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Brain–machine interfaces (BMIs) using motor cortical activity to drive an external effector like
a screen cursor or a robotic arm have seen enormous success and proven their great …

Novelty enhances visual salience independently of reward in the parietal lobe

NC Foley, DC Jangraw, C Peck… - Journal of …, 2014 - Soc Neuroscience
Novelty modulates sensory and reward processes, but it remains unknown how these effects
interact, ie, how the visual effects of novelty are related to its motivational effects. A …

Prioritization sharpens working memories but does not protect them from distraction.

Z Zhang, JA Lewis-Peacock - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Perceptual distraction distorts visual working memory representations. Previous research
has shown that memory responses are systematically biased toward visual distractors that …

Prefrontal cortex and cognitive aging in macaque monkeys

NA Upright, MG Baxter - American Journal of Primatology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Cognitive impairments that accompany aging, even in the absence of neurodegenerative
diseases, include deficits in executive function and memory mediated by the prefrontal …

[HTML][HTML] Salience models: A computational cognitive neuroscience review

S Krasovskaya, WJ MacInnes - Vision, 2019 - mdpi.com
The seminal model by Laurent Itti and Cristoph Koch demonstrated that we can compute the
entire flow of visual processing from input to resulting fixations. Despite many replications …

Nicotinic α4β2 cholinergic receptor influences on dorsolateral prefrontal cortical neuronal firing during a working memory task

Y Sun, Y Yang, VC Galvin, S Yang… - Journal of …, 2017 - Soc Neuroscience
The primate dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) subserves top-down regulation of
attention and working memory abilities. Depletion studies show that the neuromodulator …

A source for awareness-dependent figure–ground segregation in human prefrontal cortex

L Huang, L Wang, W Shen, M Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Figure–ground modulation, ie, the enhancement of neuronal responses evoked by the figure
relative to the background, has three complementary components: edge modulation …

Interareal spike-train correlations of anterior cingulate and dorsal prefrontal cortex during attention shifts

M Oemisch, S Westendorff, S Everling… - Journal of …, 2015 - Soc Neuroscience
The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and prefrontal cortex (PFC) are believed to coactivate
during goal-directed behavior to identify, select, and monitor relevant sensory information …

The mechanisms of far transfer from cognitive training: Review and hypothesis.

PM Greenwood, R Parasuraman - Neuropsychology, 2016 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: General intelligence is important for success in daily life, fueling interest in
developing cognitive training as an intervention to improve fluid ability (Gf). A major obstacle …