A rhythmic theory of attention

IC Fiebelkorn, S Kastner - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2019 - cell.com
Recent evidence has demonstrated that environmental sampling is a fundamentally
rhythmic process. Both perceptual sensitivity during covert spatial attention and the …

Power and phase of alpha oscillations reveal an interaction between spatial and temporal visual attention

SAD Kizuk, KE Mathewson - Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2017 - direct.mit.edu
Oscillatory brain rhythms can bias attention via phase and amplitude changes, which
modulate sensory activity, biasing information to be processed or ignored. Alpha band (7–14 …

Alpha-band oscillations enable spatially and temporally resolved tracking of covert spatial attention

JJ Foster, DW Sutterer, JT Serences… - Psychological …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Covert spatial attention is essential for humans' ability to direct limited processing resources
to the relevant aspects of visual scenes. A growing body of evidence suggests that rhythmic …

Prefrontal attentional saccades explore space rhythmically

C Gaillard, S Ben Hadj Hassen, F Di Bello… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Recent studies suggest that attention samples space rhythmically through oscillatory
interactions in the frontoparietal network. How these attentional fluctuations coincide with …

Theta oscillations modulate attentional search performance periodically

L Dugué, P Marque, R VanRullen - Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2015 - direct.mit.edu
Visual search—finding a target element among similar-looking distractors—is one of the
prevailing experimental methods to study attention. Current theories of visual search …

[PDF][PDF] Theta rhythmic neuronal activity and reaction times arising from cortical receptive field interactions during distributed attention

R Kienitz, JT Schmiedt, KA Shapcott, K Kouroupaki… - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
Growing evidence suggests that distributed spatial attention may invoke theta (3–9 Hz)
rhythmic sampling processes. The neuronal basis of such attentional sampling is, however …

Natural rhythms of periodic temporal attention

A Zalta, S Petkoski, B Morillon - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
That attention is a fundamentally rhythmic process has recently received abundant empirical
evidence. The essence of temporal attention, however, is to flexibly focus in time. Whether …

[PDF][PDF] Rhythmic sampling within and between objects despite sustained attention at a cued location

IC Fiebelkorn, YB Saalmann, S Kastner - Current biology, 2013 - cell.com
The brain directs its limited processing resources through various selection mechanisms,
broadly referred to as attention. The present study investigated the temporal dynamics of two …

Decoding and reconstructing the focus of spatial attention from the topography of alpha-band oscillations

J Samaha, TC Sprague, BR Postle - Journal of cognitive …, 2016 - direct.mit.edu
Many aspects of perception and cognition are supported by activity in neural populations
that are tuned to different stimulus features (eg, orientation, spatial location, color). Goal …

[PDF][PDF] Feature-based attention samples stimuli rhythmically

D Re, M Inbar, CG Richter, AN Landau - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
Attention supports the allocation of resources to relevant locations and objects in a scene.
Under most conditions, several stimuli compete for neural representation. Attention biases …