Orienting attention in time: behavioural and neuroanatomical distinction between exogenous and endogenous shifts

Coull, Jennifer T.; Frith, C. D.; Büchel, Christian; Nobre, Anna C.

doi:10.1016/s0028-3932(99)00132-3

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“…Similar left lateralisation has also been demonstrated for mechanisms involved in the temporal allocation of attention which have also been linked with motor planning (Hammond, 1982;Coull & Nobre, 1998;Coull, Frith, Buchel & Nobre, 2000). Human subjects with lesions to this area of the brain often have difficulties in the generation and the temporal control of motor sequences -known as ideomotor apraxia (DeRenzi Motti & Nichelli, 1980;DeRenzi, 1982;Harrington & Haaland, 1992;Rushworth, Nixon, Renowden, Wade & Passingham, 1997;Haaland et al, 2000).…”

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The contribution of the right supra-marginal gyrus to sequence learning in eye movements

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We investigated the role of the human right Supra-Marginal Gyrus (SMG) in the generation of learned eye movement sequences. Using MRI-guided transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) we disrupted neural activity in the SMG whilst human observers performed saccadic eye movements to multiple presentations of either predictable or random target sequences. For the predictable sequences we observed shorter saccadic latencies from the second presentation of the sequence. However, these anticipatory improvements in performance were significantly reduced when TMS was delivered to the right SMG during the inter-trial retention periods. No deficits were induced when TMS was delivered concurrently with the onset of the target visual stimuli. For the random version of the task, neither delivery of TMS to the SMG during the inter-trial period nor during the presentation of the target visual stimuli produced any deficit in performance that was significantly different from the no-TMS or control conditions. These findings demonstrate that neural activity within the right SMG is causally linked to the ability to perform short latency predictive saccades resulting from sequence learning. We conclude that neural activity in rSMG constitutes an instruction set with spatial and temporal directives that are retained and subsequently released for predictive motor planning and responses.3

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“…Although more data is needed to clarify the issue, this region appears to be more commonly activated by tasks involving the measurement of sub-second intervals than by those involving the measurement of supra-second intervals alone. Supporting this, nine (Coull, Frith, Buchel, & Nobre, 2000;Coull & Nobre, 1998;Gruber et al, 2000;Penhune, Zattore, & Evans, 1998;Rao et al, 1997;Roland, Skinhoj, & Lassen, 1981;Schubotz et al, 2000;Schubotz & Von Cramon, 2001) of the 21 reviewed papers involving measurement of sub-second intervals report peaks of activity in the frontal operculum, while only three of the nine examining supra-second intervals alone (Larasson et al, 1996;Lewis & Miall, 2002;Rao et al, 2001) report activity there. Because frontal opercular activity is seen in studies which either control for movement using subtractions (Gruber et al, 2000;Schubotz et al, 2000), or require no movement or preparation for movement during the test condition (Schubotz & Von Cramon, 2001), it seems unlikely that activity there is entirely due to motor confound.…”

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“…This finding is especially interesting as all stimuli used in this experiment were visual. Two prior studies have described activity in the temporal cortex during time measurement tasks involving no auditory cues (Coull et al, 2000;Larasson et al, 1996). Others have shown auditory cortex activity during task phases which come after the cessation of auditory cues, such as continuation tapping after auditory synchronisation (Rao et al, 1997), or memory encoding after presentation (Sakai et al, 1999).…”

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“…It has therefore been suggested (Rao et al, 1997) that this activity may be associated with auditory imagery used for the task. Because all such studies involve the measurement of sub-second intervals (Coull et al, 2000;Larasson et al, 1996;Rao et al, 1997;Sakai et al, 1999) it is possible that this imagery is more commonly used for sub-than supra-second intervals.…”

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Brain activation patterns during measurement of sub- and supra-second intervals

2003

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The possibility that different neural systems are used to measure temporal durations at the sub-second and several second ranges has been supported by pharmacological manipulation, psychophysics, and neural network modelling. Here, we add to this literature by using fMRI to isolate differences between the brain networks which measure 0.6 and 3 s in a temporal discrimination task with visual discrimination for control. We observe activity in bilateral insula and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, and in right hemispheric pre-supplementary motor area, frontal pole, and inferior parietal cortex during measurement of both intervals, suggesting that these regions constitute a system used in temporal discrimination at both ranges. The frontal operculum, left cerebellar hemisphere and middle and superior temporal gyri, all show significantly greater activity during measurement of the shorter interval, supporting the hypotheses that the motor system is preferentially involved in the measurement of sub-second intervals, and that auditory imagery is preferentially used during measurement of the same. Only a few voxels, falling in the left posterior cingulate and inferior parietal lobe, are more active in the 3 s condition. Overall, this study shows that although many brain regions are used for the measurement of both sub-and supra-second temporal durations, there are also differences in activation patterns, suggesting that distinct components are used for the two durations.

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“…Dynamic Attending Theory; Drake et al, 2000;Jones & Boltz, 1989). A second experimental technique employs a temporal analogue of the Posner (1980) spatial cueing task; participants can be effectively cued by a visual symbol to attend to a specific point in time-one of two temporal intervals following the cue (Coull, Frith, Büchel, & Nobre, 2000;Coull & Nobre, 1998;Griffin, Miniussi, & Nobre, 2002;Miniussi, Wilding, Coull, & Nobre, 1999; for review see Nobre, 2001). …”

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Auditory attention to frequency and time: an analogy to visual local–global stimuli

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2005

Cognition

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Two priming experiments demonstrated exogenous attentional persistence to the fundamental auditory dimensions of frequency (Experiment 1) and time (Experiment 2). In a divided-attention task, participants responded to an independent dimension, the identification of three-tone sequence patterns, for both prime and probe stimuli. The stimuli were specifically designed to parallel the local-global hierarchical letter stimuli of [Navon D. (1977). Forest before trees: The precedence of global features in visual perception. Cognitive Psychology, 9, 353-383] and the task was designed to parallel subsequent work in visual attention using Navon stimuli [Robertson, L. C. (1996). Attentional persistence for features of hierarchical patterns. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 125, 227-249; Ward, L. M. (1982). Determinants of attention to local and global features of visual forms. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 8,[562][563][564][565][566][567][568][569][570][571][572][573][574][575][576][577][578][579][580][581]. The results are discussed in terms of previous work in auditory attention and previous approaches to auditory local-global processing.

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Orienting attention in time: behavioural and neuroanatomical distinction between exogenous and endogenous shifts

Cited by 425 publications

References 53 publications

The contribution of the right supra-marginal gyrus to sequence learning in eye movements

The contribution of the right supra-marginal gyrus to sequence learning in eye movements

Brain activation patterns during measurement of sub- and supra-second intervals

Auditory attention to frequency and time: an analogy to visual local–global stimuli

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