Visual attention as a multilevel selection process (original) (raw)
References
Adams, M. M., Hof, P. R., Gattass, R., Webster, M. J., & Ungerleider, L. G. (2000). Visual cortical projections and chemoarchitecture of macaque monkey pulvinar. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 419, 377–393. PubMed Google Scholar
Bahcall, D. O., & Kowler, E. (1999). Attentional interference at small spatial separations. Vision Research, 39, 71–86. PubMed Google Scholar
Benevento, L. A., & Port, J. D. (1995). Single neurons with both form/color differential responses and saccade-related responses in the nonretinotopic pulvinar of the behaving macaque monkey. Visual Neuroscience, 12, 523–544. PubMed Google Scholar
Benevento, L. A., & Standage, G. P. (1983). The organization of projections of the retinorecipient and nonretinorecipient nuclei of the pretectal complex and layers of the superior colliculus to the lateral pulvinar and medial pulvinar in the macaque monkey. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 217, 307–336. PubMed Google Scholar
Brefczynski, J. A., & DeYoe, E. A. (1999). A physiological correlate of the “spotlight” of visual attention. Nature Neuroscience, 2, 370–374. PubMed Google Scholar
Broadbent, D. (1958). Perception and communication. London: Pergamon. Google Scholar
Cameron, E. L., Tai, J. C., & Carrasco, M. (2002). Covert attention affects the psychometric function of contrast sensitivity. Vision Research, 42, 949–967. PubMed Google Scholar
Caputo, G., & Guerra, S. (1998). Attentional selection by distractor suppression. Vision Research, 38, 669–689. PubMed Google Scholar
Carrasco, M., Ling, S., & Read, S. (2004). Attention alters appearance. Nature Neuroscience, 7, 308–313. PubMed Google Scholar
Cavada, C., & Goldman-Rakic, P. S. (1989). Posterior parietal cortex in rhesus monkey: II. Evidence for segregated corticocortical networks linking sensory and limbic areas with the frontal lobe. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 287, 422–445. PubMed Google Scholar
Cave K. R., & Zimmerman J. M. (1997). Flexibility in spatial attention before and after practice. Psychological Science, 8, 399–403. Google Scholar
Chelazzi, L., Duncan, J., Miller, E. K., & Desimone, R. (1998). Responses of neurons in inferior temporal cortex during memory-guided visual search. Journal of Neurophysiology, 80, 2918–2940. PubMed Google Scholar
Chen, W., Zhu, X. H., Thulborn, K. R., & Ugurbil, K. (1999). Retinotopic mapping of lateral geniculate nucleus in humans using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 96, 2430–2434. Google Scholar
Cheng, A., Eysel, U. T., & Vidyasagar, T. R. (2004). The role of the magnocellular pathway in serial deployment of visual attention. European Journal of Neuroscience, 20, 2188–2192. PubMed Google Scholar
Cook, E. P., & Maunsell, J. H. (2002). Attentional modulation of behavioral performance and neuronal responses in middle temporal and ventral intraparietal areas of macaque monkey. Journal of Neuroscience, 22, 1994–2004. PubMed Google Scholar
Corbetta, M., Miezin, F. M., Dobmeyer, S., Shulman, G. L., & Petersen, S. E. (1990). Attentional modulation of neural processing of shape, color, and velocity in humans. Science, 248, 1556–1559. PubMed Google Scholar
Corbetta, M., & Shulman, G. L. (2002). Control of goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention in the brain. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 3, 201–215. PubMed Google Scholar
Crick, F. (1984). Function of the thalamic reticular complex: The searchlight hypothesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 81, 4586–4590. Google Scholar
Cutzu, F., & Tsotsos, J. K. (2003). The selective tuning model of attention: Psychophysical evidence for a suppressive annulus around an attended item. Vision Research, 43, 205–219. PubMed Google Scholar
Desimone, R., & Duncan, J. (1995). Neural mechanisms of selective visual attention. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 18, 193–222. PubMed Google Scholar
Desimone, R., Moran, J., Schein, S. J., & Mishkin, M. (1993). A role for the corpus callosum in visual area V4 of the macaque. Visual Neuroscience, 10, 159–171. PubMed Google Scholar
Desimone R., & Ungerleider L. G. (1989). Neural mechanisms of visual processing in monkeys. In F. Boller & J. Grafam (Eds.), Handbook of neuropsychology (Vol. 2, pp. 267–299). Amsterdam: Elsevier. Google Scholar
Desimone, R., Wessinger, M., Thomas, L., & Schneider, W. (1990). Attentional control of visual perception: Cortical and subcortical mechanisms. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology, 55, 963–971. PubMed Google Scholar
DeWeerd, P., Peralta, M. R., III, Desimone, R., & Ungerleider, L. G. (1999). Loss of attentional stimulus selection after extrastriate cortical lesions in macaques. Nature Neuroscience, 2, 753–758. Google Scholar
Duncan, J. (1996). Cooperating brain systems in selective perception and action. In T. Inui & J. L. McClelland (Eds.), Attention and performance XVI (pp. 549–578). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Google Scholar
Eriksen, C. W., & St. James, J. D. (1986). Visual attention within and around the field of focal attention: A zoom lens model. Perception & Psychophysics, 40, 225–240. Google Scholar
Erisir, A., Van Horn, S. C., & Sherman, S. M. (1997). Relative numbers of cortical and brainstem inputs to the lateral geniculate nucleus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 94, 1517–1520. Google Scholar
Everling, S., Tinsley, C. J., Gaffan D., & Duncan, J. (2002). Filtering of neural signals by focused attention in the monkey prefrontal cortex. Nature Neuroscience, 5, 671–676. PubMed Google Scholar
Gallant, J. L., Shoup, R. E., & Mazer, J. A. (2000). A human extrastriate area functionally homologous to macaque V4. Neuron, 27, 227–235. PubMed Google Scholar
Goldman-Rakic, P. S. (1988). Topography of cognition: Parallel distributed networks in primate association cortex. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 11, 137–156. PubMed Google Scholar
Guillery, R. W., Feig, S. L., & Lozsádi, D. A. (1998). Paying attention to the thalamic reticular nucleus. Trends in Neurosciences, 21, 28–32. PubMed Google Scholar
Harting, J. K., Huerta, M. F., Frankfurter, A. J., Strominger, N. L., & Royce, G. J. (1980). Ascending pathways from the monkey superior colliculus: An autoradiographic analysis. Journal of Comparative neurology, 192, 853–882. PubMed Google Scholar
Ito, M., & Gilbert, C. D. (1999). Attention modulates contextual influences in the primary visual cortex of alert monkeys. Neuron, 22, 593–604. PubMed Google Scholar
Jones, E. G. (1985). The thalamus. New York. Plenum. Google Scholar
Kanwisher, N., & Wojciulik, E. (2000). Visual attention: Insights from brain imaging. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 1, 91–100. PubMed Google Scholar
Karnath, H. O., Himmelbach, M., & Rorden, C. (2002). The subcortical anatomy of human spatial neglect: Putamen, caudate nucleus and pulvinar. Brain, 125(Pt. 2), 350–360. PubMed Google Scholar
Kastner, S. (2004). Towards a neural basis of human visual attention: Evidence from functional brain imaging. In J. Duncan & N. Kanwisher (Eds.), Attention and performance XX (pp. 299–318). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Google Scholar
Kastner, S., DeWeerd, P., Desimone, R., & Ungerleider, L. G. (1998). Mechanisms of directed attention in the human extrastriate cortex as revealed by functional MRI. Science, 282, 108–111. PubMed Google Scholar
Kastner, S., DeWeerd, P., Pinsk, M. A., Elizondo, M. I., Desimone, R., & Ungerleider, L. G. (2001). Modulation of sensory suppression: Implications for receptive field sizes in the human visual cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology, 86, 1398–1411. PubMed Google Scholar
Kastner, S., Nothdurft, H. C., & Pigarev, I. N. (1999). Neuronal responses to orientation and motion contrast in cat striate cortex. Visual Neuroscience, 16, 587–600. PubMed Google Scholar
Kastner, S., O’Connor, D. H., Fukui, M. M., Fehd, H. M., Herwig, U., & Pinsk, M. A. (2004). Functional imaging of the human lateral geniculate nucleus and pulvinar. Journal of Neurophysiology, 91, 438–448. PubMed Google Scholar
Kastner, S., Pinsk, M. A., DeWeerd, P., Desimone, R., & Ungerleider, L. G. (1999). Increased activity in human visual cortex during directed attention in the absence of visual stimulation. Neuron, 22, 751–761. PubMed Google Scholar
Kastner, S., & Ungerleider, L. G. (2000). Mechanisms of visual attention in the human cortex. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 23, 315–341. PubMed Google Scholar
LaBerge, D., & Brown, V. (1989). Theory of attentional operations in shape identification. Psychological Review, 96, 101–124. Google Scholar
LaBerge, D., & Buchsbaum, M. S. (1990). Positron emission tomographic measurements of pulvinar activity during an attention task. Journal of Neuroscience, 10, 613–619. PubMed Google Scholar
Lavie, N., & Tsal, Y. (1994). Perceptual load as a major determinant of the locus of selection in visual attention. Perception & Psychophysics, 56, 183–197. Google Scholar
Lu Z. L., & Dosher, B. A. (1998). External noise distinguishes attention mechanisms. Vision Research, 38, 1183–1198. PubMed Google Scholar
Luck, S. J., Chelazzi, L., Hillyard, S. A., & Desimone, R. (1997). Neural mechanisms of spatial selective attention in areas V1, V2, and V4 of macaque visual cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology, 77, 24–42. PubMed Google Scholar
Martinez, A., Anllo-Vento, L., Sereno, M. I., Frank, L. R., Buxton, R. B., Dubowitz, D. J., Wong, E. C., Hinrichs, H., Heinze, H. J., & Hillyard, S. A. (1999). Involvement of striate and extrastriate visual cortical areas in spatial attention. Nature Neuroscience, 2, 364–369. PubMed Google Scholar
Maunsell, J. H., & van Essen, D. C. (1983). The connections of the middle temporal visual area (MT) and their relationship to a cortical hierarchy in the macaque monkey. Journal of Neuroscience, 3, 2563–2586. PubMed Google Scholar
McAdams, C. J., & Maunsell, J. H. (1999). Effects of attention on orientation-tuning functions of single neurons in macaque cortical area V4. Journal of Neuroscience, 19, 431–441. PubMed Google Scholar
Mehta, A. D., Ulbert, I., & Schroeder, C. E. (2000). Intermodal selective attention in monkeys: I. Distribution and timing of effects across visual areas. Cerebral Cortex, 10, 343–358. PubMed Google Scholar
Merigan, W. H., & Maunsell, J. H. (1993). How parallel are the primate visual pathways? Annual Review of Neuroscience, 16, 369–402. PubMed Google Scholar
Miller, E. K., Gochin, P. M., & Gross, C. G. (1993). Suppression of visual responses of neurons in inferior temporal cortex of the awake macaque by addition of a second stimulus. Brain Research, 616, 25–29. PubMed Google Scholar
Moore, T., & Armstrong, K. M. (2003). Selective gating of visual signals by microstimulation of frontal cortex. Nature, 421, 370–373. PubMed Google Scholar
Moran, J., & Desimone, R. (1985). Selective attention gates visual processing in the extrastriate cortex. Science, 229, 782–784. PubMed Google Scholar
Motter, B. C. (1993). Focal attention produces spatially selective processing in visual cortical areas V1, V2, and V4 in the presence of competing stimuli. Journal of Neurophysiology, 70, 909–919. PubMed Google Scholar
Murray, S. O., & Wojciulik, E. (2004). Attention increases neural selectivity in the human lateral occipital complex. Nature Neuroscience, 7, 70–74. PubMed Google Scholar
Nobre, A. C. (2001). The attentive homunculus: Now you see it, now you don’t. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 25, 477–496. Google Scholar
O’Connor, D. H., Fukui, M. M., Pinsk, M. A., & Kastner, S. (2002). Attention modulates responses in the human lateral geniculate nucleus. Nature Neuroscience, 5, 1203–1209. PubMed Google Scholar
Pessoa, L., Kastner, S., & Ungerleider, L. G. (2002). Attentional control of the processing of neural and emotional stimuli. Cognitive Brain Research, 15, 31–45. PubMed Google Scholar
Petersen, S. E., Robinson, D. L., & Keys, W. (1985). Pulvinar nuclei of the behaving rhesus monkey: Visual responses and their modulation. Journal of Neurophysiology, 54, 867–886. PubMed Google Scholar
Petersen, S. E., Robinson, D. L., & Morris, J. D. (1987). Contributions of the pulvinar to visual spatial attention. Neuropsychologia, 25, 97–105. PubMed Google Scholar
Pinsk, M. A., Doniger, G. M., & Kastner, S. (2004). Push-pull mechanism of selective attention in human extrastriate cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology, 92, 622–629. PubMed Google Scholar
Posner, M. I. (1980). Orienting of attention. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 32, 3–25. PubMed Google Scholar
Rafal, R. D., & Posner, M. I. (1987). Deficits in human visual spatial attention following thalamic lesions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 84, 7349–7353. Google Scholar
Recanzone, G. H., & Wurtz, R. H. (2000). Effects of attention on MT and MST neuronal activity during pursuit initiation. Journal of Neurophysiology, 83, 777–790. PubMed Google Scholar
Recanzone, G. H., Wurtz, R. H., & Schwarz, U. (1997). Responses of MT and MST neurons to one and two moving objects in the receptive field. Journal of Neurophysiology, 78, 2904–2915. PubMed Google Scholar
Rees, G., Frith, C. D., & Lavie, N. (1997). Modulating irrelevant motion perception by varying attentional load in an unrelated task. Sience, 278, 1616–1619. Google Scholar
Rees, G., Wojciulik, E., Clarke, K., Husain, M., Frith, C., & Driver, J. (2000). Unconscious activation of visual cortex in the damaged right hemisphere of a parietal patient with extinction. Brain, 123, 1624–1633. PubMed Google Scholar
Ress D., Backus, B. T., & Heeger, D. J. (2000). Activity in primary visual cortex predicts performance in a visual detection task. Nature Neuroscience, 3, 940–945. PubMed Google Scholar
Reynolds, J. H., Chelazzi, L., & Desimone, R. (1999). Competitive mechanisms subserve attention in macaque areas V2 and V4. Journal of Neuroscience, 19, 1736–1753. PubMed Google Scholar
Reynolds, J. H., & Desimone, R. (1999). The role of neural mechanisms of attention in solving the binding problem. Neuron, 24, 19–29, 111–125. PubMed Google Scholar
Reynolds, J. H., Pasternak, T., & Desimone, R. (2000). Attention increases sensitivity of V4 neurons. Neuron, 26, 703–714. PubMed Google Scholar
Robinson, D. L., McClurkin, J. W., & Kertzman, C. (1990). Orbital position and eye movement influences on visual responses in the pulvinar nuclei of the behaving macaque. Experimental Brain Research, 82, 235–246. Google Scholar
Robinson, D. L., & Petersen, S. E. (1992). The pulvinar and visual salience. Trends in Neurosciences, 15, 127–132. PubMed Google Scholar
Robinson, D. L., Petersen, S. E., & Keys, W. (1986). Saccade-related and visual activities in the pulvinar nuclei of the behaving rhesus monkey. Experimental Brain Research, 62, 625–634. Google Scholar
Roelfsema, P. R., Lamme, V. A., & Spekreijse, H. (1998). Objectbased attention in the primary visual cortex of the macaque monkey. Nature, 395, 376–381. PubMed Google Scholar
Schall, J. D., & Thompson, K. G. (1999). Neural selection and control of visually guided eye movements. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 22, 241–259. PubMed Google Scholar
Schneider, K. A., & Kastner, S. (2004). Attentional modulation of the human lateral geniculate nucleus and superior colliculus: A highresolution fMRI study. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 30, 717. Google Scholar
Sereno, M. I., Dale, A. M., Reppas, J. B., Kwong, K. K., Belliveau, J. W., Brady, T. J., Rosen, B. R., & Tootell, R. B. (1995). Borders of multiple visual areas in humans revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging. Science, 268, 889–893. PubMed Google Scholar
Sherman, S. M. (2001). Tonic and burst firing: Dual modes of thalamocortical relay. Trends in Neurosciences, 24, 122–126. PubMed Google Scholar
Sherman, S. M., & Guillery, R. W. (2001). Exploring the thalamus. San Diego: Academic Press. Google Scholar
Sherman, S. M., & Guillery, R. W. (2002). The role of the thalamus in the flow of information to the cortex. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: Series B, 357, 1695–1708. Google Scholar
Shipp, S. (2001). Corticopulvinar connections of areas V5, V4, and V3 in the macaque monkey: A dual model of retinal and cortical topographies. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 439, 469–490. PubMed Google Scholar
Shipp, S. (2003). The functional logic of cortico-pulvinar connections. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: Series B, 358, 1605–1624. Google Scholar
Shipp, S. (2004). The brain circuitry of attention. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8, 223–230. PubMed Google Scholar
Shiu, L. P., & Pashler, H. (1995). Spatial attention and vernier acuity. Vision Research, 35, 337–343. PubMed Google Scholar
Smith, A. T. Singh, K. D., & Greenlee, M. W. (2000). Attentional suppression of activity in the human visual cortex. NeuroReport, 11, 271–277. PubMed Google Scholar
Spitzer, H., & Richmond, B. J. (1991). Task difficulty: Ignoring, attending to, and discriminating a visual stimulus yield progressively more activity in inferior temporal neurons. Experimental Brain Research, 83, 340–348. Google Scholar
Standage, G. P., & Benevento, L. A. (1983). The organization of connections between the pulvinar and visual area MT in the macaque monkey. Brain Research, 262, 288–294. PubMed Google Scholar
Steinman, B. A., Steinman, S. B., & Lehmkuhle, S. (1997). Transient visual attention is dominated by the magnocellular stream. Vision Research, 37, 17–23. PubMed Google Scholar
Tootell, R. B., Hadjikhani, N., Hall, E. K., Marrett, S., Vanduffel, W., Vaughan, J. T., & Dale, A. M. (1998). The retinotopy of visual spatial attention. Neuron, 21, 1409–1422. PubMed Google Scholar
Tsotsos, J. K., Culhane, S. M., & Cutzu, F. (2001). From foundational principles to a hierarchical selection circuit for attention. In J. Braun, C. Koch, & J. L. David (Eds.), Visual attention and cortical circuits (pp. 285–306). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Google Scholar
Ungerleider, L. G., Desimone, R., Galkin, T. W., & Mishkin, M. (1984). Subcortical projections of area MT in the macaque. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 223, 368–386. PubMed Google Scholar
Ungerleider, L. G., Gaffan, D., & Pelak, V. S. (1989). Projections from inferior temporal cortex to prefrontal cortex via the uncinate fascicle in rhesus monkeys. Experimental Brain Research, 76, 473–484. Google Scholar
Ungerleider, L. G., Galkin, T. W. & Mishkin, M. (1983). Visuotopic organization of projections from striate cortex to inferior and lateral pulvinar in rhesus monkey. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 217, 137–157. PubMed Google Scholar
Vanduffel, W., Tootell, R. B., & Orban, G. A. (2000). Attentiondependent suppression of metabolic activity in the early stages of the macaque visual system. Cerebral Cortex, 10, 109–126. PubMed Google Scholar
Van Essen, D. C., Newsome, W. T., & Bixby, J. L. (1982). The pattern of interhemispheric connections and its relationship to extrastriate visual areas in the macaque monkey. Journal of Neuroscience, 2, 265–283. PubMed Google Scholar
Vuilleumier, P., Sagiv, N., Hazeltine, E., Poldrack, R. A., Swick, D., Rafal, R. D., & Gabrieli, J. D. E. (2001). Neural fate of seen and unseen faces in visuospatial neglect: A combined event-related functional MRI and event-related potential study. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 98, 3495–3500. Google Scholar
Webster, M. J., Bachevalier, J., & Ungerleider, L. G. (1994). Connections of inferior temporal areas TEO and TE with parietal and frontal cortex in macaque monkeys. Cerebral Cortex, 4, 470–483. PubMed Google Scholar
Wiesel, T. N., & Hubel, D. H. (1966). Spatial and chromatic interactions in the lateral geniculate body of the rhesus monkey. Journal of Neurophysiology, 29, 1115–1156. PubMed Google Scholar
Yantis, S., Schwarzbach, J., Serences, J. T., Carlson, R. L., Steinmetz, M. A., Pekar, J. J., & Courtney, S. M. (2002). Transient neural activity in human parietal cortex during spatial attention shifts. Nature Neuroscience, 5, 995–1002. PubMed Google Scholar
Yeshurun, Y., & Carrasco, M. (1998). Attention improves or impairs visual performance by enhancing spatial resolution. Nature, 396, 72–75. PubMed Google Scholar
Yi, D.-J., Woodman, G. F., Widders, D., Marois, R. & Chun, M. M. (2004). Neural fate of ignored stimuli: Dissociable effects of perceptual and working memory load. Nature Neuroscience, 7, 992–996. PubMed Google Scholar