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Behavioural Dissociation between Exogenous and Endogenous Temporal Orienting of Attention 1,2 3 1,2 Gustavo Rohenkohl *, Jennifer T. Coull , Anna C. Nobre 1 Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2 Department of Psychiatry, Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity (OHBA), ´ University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 3 Laboratoire de Neurobiologie de la Cognition, Universite de Provence CNRS, Marseille, France Abstract Background: In the current study we compared the effects of temporal orienting of attention based on predictions carried by the intrinsic temporal structure of events (rhythm) and by instructive symbolic cues; and tested the degree of cognitive, strategic control that could be exerted over each type of temporal expectation. The experiments tested whether the distinction between exogenous and endogenous orienting made in spatial attention may extend to the temporal domain. Task Design and Main Results: In this task, a ball moved across the screen in discrete steps and disappeared temporarily under an occluding band. Participants were required to make a perceptual discrimination on the target upon its reappearance. The regularity of the speed (rhythmic cue) or colour (symbolic cue) of the moving stimulus could predict the exact time at which a target would reappear after a brief occlusion (valid trials) or provide no temporal information (neutral trials). The predictive nature of rhythmic and symbolic cues was manipulated factorially in a symmetrical and orthogonal fashion. To test for the effects of strategic control over temporal orienting based on rhythmic or symbol