Brain networks of bottom-up triggered and top-down controlled shifting of auditory attention

Salmi, Juha; Rinne, Teemu; Koistinen, Sonja; Salonen, Oili; Alho, Kimmo

doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2009.06.083

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“…Based on these results, Corbetta and Shulman (2002) distinguished between a specialized ventral network for bottom-up attention capture and a specialized dorsal network for top-down control and deployment of attention. However, there is a growing body of evidence linking the ventral frontoparietal regions to top-down control of attention in audition (Alho et al, 1999;Salmi et al, 2009) as well as in vision (Rosen et al, 1999;Peelen et al, 2004). The present results therefore provide converging evidence that the ventral frontoparietal regions are not dedicated to bottom-up attention capture but can also perform top-down attention control operations.…”

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“…Regardless of sensory modality, attentioncontrol activities were observed in both inferior and superior regions of the parietal and frontal cortices. Previous PET and fMRI studies have implicated these frontoparietal regions in the voluntary control of attention in vision (Corbetta et al, 2000;Corbetta and Shulman, 2002;Macaluso et al, 2003;Serences and Yantis, 2006), audition (Shomstein and Yantis, 2006;Wu et al, 2007;Salmi et al, 2009), and touch (Macaluso et al, 2002(Macaluso et al, , 2003, and in shifting attention between the visual and auditory modalities (modality selection) (Shomstein and Yantis, 2004). The similarities across modalities and tasks suggest that these frontal and parietal regions may perform general attention operations that are modality independent.…”

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Electrical Neuroimaging of Voluntary Audiospatial Attention: Evidence for a Supramodal Attention Control Network

Green

Doesburg²,

Ward³

et al. 2011

J. Neurosci.

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Previous attempts to investigate the supramodal nature of attentional control have focused primarily on identifying neuroanatomical overlap in the frontoparietal systems activated during voluntary shifts of spatial attention in different sensory modalities. However, the activation of the same neural structures is insufficient evidence for a supramodal system, as the same brain regions could interact with one another in very different ways during shifts of attention in different modalities. Thus, to explore the similarity of the functional networks, it is necessary to identify the neural structures involved and to examine the timing and sequence of activities within the network. To this end, we used an electrical neuroimaging technique to localize the neural sources of electroencephalographic signals recorded from human subjects during audiospatial shifts of attention and to examine the timing and sequence of activities within several regions of interest. We then compared the results to an analogous study of visuospatial attention shifts. Similar frontal and parietal regions were activated during visual and auditory shifts of attention, and the timing of activities within these regions was nearly identical. Following this modality-independent sequence of attention-control activity, activity in the relevant sensory cortex was enhanced in anticipation of the response-relevant target. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that a single supramodal network of frontal and parietal regions mediates voluntary shifts of spatial attention and controls the flow of sensory information in modality-specific sensory pathways.

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Electrical Neuroimaging of Voluntary Audiospatial Attention: Evidence for a Supramodal Attention Control Network

Green

Doesburg²,

Ward³

et al. 2011

J. Neurosci.

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“…A prominent theory is that dorsal regions are activated for visual top–down attention, while ventral regions are driven by stimulus properties [Corbetta et al, 2002]. There is controversy over whether this same pattern is generalizable to non‐visuospatial tasks [Alho et al, 2015; Braga et al, 2013b; Gottlieb and Snyder, 2010; Kong et al, 2014; Salmi et al, 2009]. It is unclear whether the same frontoparietal set of putative “multimodal” regions is activated during the cognitive processing of information from all sensory modalities.…”

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Auditory and visual connectivity gradients in frontoparietal cortex

Braga

Hellyer

Wise

et al. 2016

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A frontoparietal network of brain regions is often implicated in both auditory and visual information processing. Although it is possible that the same set of multimodal regions subserves both modalities, there is increasing evidence that there is a differentiation of sensory function within frontoparietal cortex. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in humans was used to investigate whether different frontoparietal regions showed intrinsic biases in connectivity with visual or auditory modalities. Structural connectivity was assessed with diffusion tractography and functional connectivity was tested using functional MRI. A dorsal–ventral gradient of function was observed, where connectivity with visual cortex dominates dorsal frontal and parietal connections, while connectivity with auditory cortex dominates ventral frontal and parietal regions. A gradient was also observed along the posterior–anterior axis, although in opposite directions in prefrontal and parietal cortices. The results suggest that the location of neural activity within frontoparietal cortex may be influenced by these intrinsic biases toward visual and auditory processing. Thus, the location of activity in frontoparietal cortex may be influenced as much by stimulus modality as the cognitive demands of a task. It was concluded that stimulus modality was spatially encoded throughout frontal and parietal cortices, and was speculated that such an arrangement allows for top–down modulation of modality‐specific information to occur within higher‐order cortex. This could provide a potentially faster and more efficient pathway by which top–down selection between sensory modalities could occur, by constraining modulations to within frontal and parietal regions, rather than long‐range connections to sensory cortices. Hum Brain Mapp 38:255–270, 2017. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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“…The superior parietal lobe is regarded as a part of a frontoparietal network that seems to play a central role in goal-directed selection of stimuli as well as in motor-preparation (Corbetta and Shulman, 2002;Bidet-Caulet and Bertrand, 2005;Salmi et al, 2009). When a stimulus matches a sound template currently held in short-term memory, i.e., the target sound, it may activate a network of distinct cortical areas that give rise to a fast allocation of attention and trigger the associated motor-response.…”

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Is My Mobile Ringing? Evidence for Rapid Processing of a Personally Significant Sound in Humans

Roye¹,

Schröger²,

Jacobsen³

et al. 2010

J. Neurosci.

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Anecdotal reports and also empirical observations suggest a preferential processing of personally significant sounds. The utterance of one's own name, the ringing of one's own telephone, or the like appear to be especially effective for capturing attention. However, there is a lack of knowledge about the time course and functional neuroanatomy of the voluntary and the involuntary detection of personally significant sounds. To address this issue, we applied an active and a passive listening paradigm, in which male and female human participants were presented with the SMS ringtone of their own mobile and other's ringtones, respectively. Enhanced evoked oscillatory activity in the 35-75 Hz band for one's own ringtone shows that the brain distinguishes complex personally significant and nonsignificant sounds, starting as early as 40 ms after sound onset. While in animals it has been reported that the primary auditory cortex accounts for acoustic experience-based memory matching processes, results from the present study suggest that in humans these processes are not confined to sensory processing areas. In particular, we found a coactivation of left auditory areas and left frontal gyri during passive listening. Active listening evoked additional involvement of sensory processing areas in the right hemisphere. This supports the idea that top-down mechanisms affect stimulus representations even at the level of sensory cortices. Furthermore, active detection of sounds additionally activated the superior parietal lobe supporting the existence of a frontoparietal network of selective attention.

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Brain networks of bottom-up triggered and top-down controlled shifting of auditory attention

Cited by 131 publications

References 42 publications

Electrical Neuroimaging of Voluntary Audiospatial Attention: Evidence for a Supramodal Attention Control Network

Electrical Neuroimaging of Voluntary Audiospatial Attention: Evidence for a Supramodal Attention Control Network

Auditory and visual connectivity gradients in frontoparietal cortex

Is My Mobile Ringing? Evidence for Rapid Processing of a Personally Significant Sound in Humans

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