Neuromodulation of attention

A Thiele, MA Bellgrove - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
Attention is critical to high-level cognition and attention deficits are a hallmark of neurologic
and neuropsychiatric disorders. Although years of research indicates that distinct …

Neurochemistry of visual attention

DEL Lockhofen, C Mulert - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Visual attention is the cognitive process that mediates the selection of important information
from the environment. This selection is usually controlled by bottom-up and top-down …

Does the mind wander when the brain takes a break? Local sleep in wakefulness, attentional lapses and mind-wandering

T Andrillon, J Windt, T Silk, SPA Drummond… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Sleep has been classically described as an all-or-nothing global phenomenon. However,
recent research strongly suggests that this view requires tempering. Invasive and non …

How effective are pharmaceuticals for cognitive enhancement in healthy adults? A series of meta-analyses of cognitive performance during acute administration of …

CA Roberts, A Jones, H Sumnall, SH Gage… - European …, 2020 - Elsevier
Modafinil, methyphenidate (MPH) and d-amphetamine (d-amph) are putative cognitive
enhancers. However, efficacy of cognitive enhancement has yet to be fully established. We …

Examining the role of the noradrenergic locus coeruleus for predicting attention and brain maintenance in healthy old age and disease: an MRI structural study for the …

ERG Plini, E O'Hanlon, R Boyle, F Sibilia, G Rikhye… - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
The noradrenergic theory of Cognitive Reserve (Robertson, 2013–2014) postulates that the
upregulation of the locus coeruleus—noradrenergic system (LC–NA) originating in the …

Electrical stimulation of alpha oscillations stabilizes performance on visual attention tasks.

MS Clayton, N Yeung… - Journal of Experimental …, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Neural oscillations in the alpha band (7–13 Hz) have long been associated with reductions
in attention. However, recent studies have suggested a more nuanced perspective in which …

Modulating the difficulty of a visual oddball-like task and P3m amplitude

C Boetzel, HI Stecher, FH Kasten, CS Herrmann - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
It is often necessary to modulate the difficulty of an experimental task without changing
physical stimulus characteristics that are known to modulate event-related potentials. Here …

Pharmacological manipulations of physiological arousal and sleep-like slow waves modulate sustained attention

E Pinggal, PM Dockree, RG O'Connell… - Journal of …, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
Sustained attention describes our ability to keep a constant focus on a given task. This ability
is modulated by our physiological state of arousal. Although lapses of sustained attention …

Young and restless, old and focused: Age-differences in mind-wandering frequency and phenomenology.

CN Moran, DP McGovern, G Warren… - Psychology and …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
The consistently observed age-accompanied diminution in mind-wandering stands
seemingly opposed to accounts that present mind-wandering as a failure of executive …

A robust brain network for sustained attention from adolescence to adulthood that predicts later substance use

Y Weng, J Kruschwitz, LM Rueda-Delgado, KL Ruddy… - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Substance use, including cigarettes and cannabis, is associated with poorer sustained
attention in late adolescence and early adulthood. Previous studies were predominantly …