electrophysiological evidence for spatiotemporal flexibility in the ventrolateral attention network电生理学证据时空腹外侧关注网络的灵活性.pdfVIP

Electrophysiological Evidence for Spatiotemporal Flexibility in the Ventrolateral Attention Network 1 2 Jelena Ristic *, Barry Giesbrecht 1 Department of Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 2 Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and the Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America Abstract Successful completion of many everyday tasks depends on interactions between voluntary attention, which acts to maintain current goals, and reflexive attention, which enables responding to unexpected events by interrupting the current focus of attention. Past studies, which have mostly examined each attentional mechanism in isolation, indicate that volitional and reflexive orienting depend on two functionally specialized cortical networks in the human brain. Here we investigated how the interplay between these two cortical networks affects sensory processing and the resulting overt behavior. By combining measurements of human performance and electrocortical recordings with a novel analytical technique for estimating spatiotemporal activity in the human cortex, we found that the subregions that comprise the reflexive ventrolateral attention network dissociate both spatially and temporally as a function of the nature of the sensory information and current task demands. Moreover, we found that together with the magnitude of the early sensory gain, the spatiotemporal neural dynamics accounted for the high amount of the variance in the behavioral data. Collectively these data support the conclusion that the ventrolateral attention network is recruited flexibly to support complex behaviors. Citation: Ristic J, Gies