Analyzing and shaping human attentional networks

Posner, Michael I.; Sheese, Brad E.; Odludaş, Yalçin; Tang, Yi‐Yuan

doi:10.1016/j.neunet.2006.08.004

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“…These findings support the role of cingulate areas in the control of cognition and emotion. There is also evidence for anatomical connectivity between the ventral cingulate and limbic areas and the dorsal cingulate, parietal, and frontal areas (Posner, Sheese, Odludas, & Tang, 2007).…”

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The anterior cingulate gyrus and the mechanism of self-regulation

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Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience

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The anterior cingulate gyrus and the mechanism of self-regulation

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Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience

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“…Hundreds of studies have been conducted to compare ANT data as a function of psychological disorder (e.g., Gooding et al 2006;Leskin and White 2007;Posner et al 2002), developmental stage (e.g., Konrad et al 2005;Posner et al 2006), and manipulations of stress (e.g., Anderson et al 2007;Cavanagh and Allen 2008;Sato et al 2012). These studies traditionally rely on comparisons of RTs to provide inferences about individual or group differences, and as such only scratch the surface for understanding precisely how these groups differ.…”

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Cueing Effects in the Attentional Network Test: a Spotlight Diffusion Model Analysis

White

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2018

Comput Brain Behav

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The attentional network test (ANT) uses flanker stimuli with different cue conditions to quantify differences in attentional processing. However, it is unclear precisely how the alerting and orienting cues in the task affect different decision processes. The present study leveraged computational modeling to identify the relationship between attentional cues and decision components. ANT data from a large sample of 156 participants were analyzed using the spotlight diffusion model, which quantifies decision components for response caution, motor/encoding time, perceptual processing, and attentional control. The spotlight analysis showed that the attentional cues had multiple effects on decision processing. Compared to the no cue condition, an alerting cue led to faster encoding/motor speed, improved perceptual processing, and increased attentional focusing. The orienting cue further led to a decrease in response caution and increased encoding/motor speed and attentional focusing to reduce interference from incompatible flankers. This analysis demonstrates that alerting and orienting cues have complex effects on decision processes that are not captured by simple differences in RTs, and that model-based analyses can delineate such effects to allow researchers to identify precisely how attentional processing varies across individuals or conditions in tasks like the ANT.

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“…Many studies present strong evidences that the anterior cingulate gyrus appears to play a role in a wide variety of autonomic functions, such as regulating blood pressure and heart rate, as well as rational cognitive functions, such as reward anticipation, decisionmaking, empathy and emotion [15], [16]. There is also evidence for anatomical connectivity between the ventral cingulate and limbic areas and the dorsal cingulate, parietal, and frontal areas [17]. Anatomical and electrophysiological studies show there is one type of projection cell which called the Von Economo neuron in the anterior cingulate gyrus and stress can diminish the production of these neurons [18], [19], [20].…”

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The deactivation network in brain during acute stress

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Wang

Liu

et al. 2011

2011 International Conference of Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR)

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Abstract-There is growing evidence from patient and psychoneuroimmunology studies that there is a clear correlation between the psychosocial stress and health state, but the neural mechanism of the correlation remain poorly understood. The deactivations of the limbic system and anterior frontal cortex during acute psychosocial stress were reported in recent studies, and the observed results suggest these brain areas are activated at rest and during nonstressful situations suggesting the deactivation regions during stress play an important role in detrimental health effects of psychosocial stress. However, these studies mostly aim at confining the brain regions that present the decrease of the brain blood flow. The response mode and space-time relation of these regions from overall and dynamic angle are left untouched. In this paper, we exposed human subjects to one mathematic stressor and one comparison task in one functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI; = 17) experiment and one of the regions of interest (ROIs)-based functional connectivity analyses, within-condition interregional covariance analysis (WICA), is employed to analyze the interaction of the brain regions that show deactivation during different task states. We demonstrate a profound deactivation of limbic system and anterior frontal cortex during mathematic stress and a neural network of deactivation regions, which was modulated by the difficult degree of mathematic tasks.

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Analyzing and shaping human attentional networks

Cited by 187 publications

References 41 publications

The anterior cingulate gyrus and the mechanism of self-regulation

The anterior cingulate gyrus and the mechanism of self-regulation

Cueing Effects in the Attentional Network Test: a Spotlight Diffusion Model Analysis

The deactivation network in brain during acute stress

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