Dissociating top-down attentional control from selective perception and action

JB Hopfinger, MG Woldorff, EM Fletcher, GR Mangun - Neuropsychologia, 2001 - Elsevier
Research into the neural mechanisms of attention has revealed a complex network of brain
regions that are involved in the execution of attention-demanding tasks. Recent advances in …

On the time course of top-down and bottom-up control of visual attention

J Theeuwes, P Atchley, AF Kramer - Control of cognitive …, 2000 - books.google.com
Previous research showed that a salient feature singleton captured attention bottom-up
(Theeuwes 1991a, 1992, 1994a). A salient color singleton interfered with search for a less …

Effects of spatial selective attention on the steady-state visual evoked potential in the 20–28 Hz range

MM Müller, TW Picton, P Valdes-Sosa, J Riera… - Cognitive brain …, 1998 - Elsevier
Steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEPs) were recorded from the scalp of subjects
who attended to a flickering LED display in one visual field while ignoring a similar display …

Sensorimotor brain dynamics reflect architectural affordances

Z Djebbara, LB Fich, L Petrini… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Anticipating meaningful actions in the environment is an essential function of the brain. Such
predictive mechanisms originate from the motor system and allow for inferring actions from …

Electrophysiological evidence of attentional biases in social anxiety disorder

EM Mueller, SG Hofmann, DL Santesso… - Psychological …, 2009 - cambridge.org
BackgroundPrevious studies investigating attentional biases in social anxiety disorder
(SAD) have yielded mixed results. Recent event-related potential (ERP) studies using the …

ERP and fMRI measures of visual spatial selective attention

GR Mangun, MH Buonocore, M Girelli… - Human brain …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
In two prior studies, we investigated the neural mechanisms of spatial attention using a
combined event‐related potential (ERP) and positron emission tomography (PET) approach …

Mighty metaphors: Behavioral and ERP evidence that power shifts attention on a vertical dimension

K Zanolie, S Van Dantzig, I Boot, J Wijnen… - Brain and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Thinking about the abstract concept power may automatically activate the spatial up–down
image schema (powerful up; powerless down) and consequently direct spatial attention to …

Neural mechanisms of global and local processing: A combined PET and ERP study

HJ Heinze, H Hinrichs, M Scholz, W Burchert… - Journal of cognitive …, 1998 - direct.mit.edu
The neural mechanisms of hierarchical stimulus processing were investigated using a
combined event-related potentials (ERPs) and positron emission tomography (PET) …

Neural correlates of person recognition

KA Paller, C Ranganath, B Gonsalves… - Learning & …, 2003 - learnmem.cshlp.org
Rapidly identifying known individuals is an essential skill in human society. To elucidate the
neural basis of this skill, we monitored brain activity while experimental participants …

Sensory and cognitive processes of shifts of spatial attention induced by numbers: An ERP study

E Salillas, R El Yagoubi, C Semenza - Cortex, 2008 - Elsevier
The relationship between space and number has become a focus of intensive investigation
(Hubbard et al., 2005; Walsh, 2003). The present paper aims to explore the nature of …