Section 7

Outline

I. Biological roots of attention

II. Perceptual attention

A. Arousal

B. Bottom-up attention

1. Preattentive processing

C. Top-down attention

1. ART model

2. Evidence for top-down attentional modulation

a) Unit recording in monkey inferior temporal cortex

(1) Moran & Desimone 1985

(2) Fuster 1990

(3) Tomita et al 1999

b) Human ERP studies

c) Human clinical studies

d) Human imaging studies

III. Working memory

A. Neural evidence for working memory

1. The delayed match-to-sample task

2. Properties of delay-period prefrontal neuron activation

3. Organization of working memory in large-scale distributed networks

4. Human neuroimaging studies of working memory

5. Relation of working memory and attention

6. Cooling studies

IV. Executive attention

A. Major subdivisions of prefrontal cortex in executive attention

V. Set and expectancy

A. Neural correlates of set

VI. Execution and monitoring

A. Monitoring reflects the role of prefrontal cortex in executive attention