Do ERP components triggered during attentional orienting represent supramodal attentional control?

Seiss, Ellen; Gherri, Elena; Eardley, Alison F.; Eimer, Martin

doi:10.1111/j.1469-8986.2007.00591.x

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“…Thus, this finding is inconsistent with the notion that the ADAN reflects supramodal attentional control processes (e.g. rather suggests that the ADAN reflects processes that are, at least in part, modality specific (Green et al, 2005;Green and McDonald, 2006; but see also Seiss et al, 2007). Correspondingly, Green et al (2008) have recently suggested that the ADAN reflects multiple neural generators that U N C O R R E C T E D P R O O F are differentially modulated by task parameters, such as cue modality and response related processes.…”

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ERP correlates of tactile spatial attention differ under intra- and intermodal conditions

Förster

Sambo

Pavone

2009

Biological Psychology

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. The majority of spatial attention research has investigated processes related to the orienting of attention and selection of information within the visual system. In recent years the number of studies investigating the ability to orient attention to locations on the body and to selectively attend to tactile information has increased (see Spence and Gallace, 2007 for review). These studies have shown that also in the tactile modality attention can be oriented voluntarily (endogenously) and reflexively (exogenously) to locations on the body. Electrophysiological and brain imaging studies have reported that early somatosensory processing is modulated by tactile spatial attention (e.g. Michie, 1984;Roland, 1981), while behavioural studies of endogenous tactile attention have found that orienting attention to a location on the body both speeds reaction times (RT) and enhances discrimination of tactile stimuli at that location (see Johansen-Berg and Lloyd, 2000 or Spence, 2002 for reviews). Permanent repository linkEndogenous tactile attention can be oriented to a location on the body either in a sustained fashion over longer periods of time or in a transient fashion following informative cues indicating the subsequent stimulus location. Most studies investigating transient endogenous tactile attention have employed either auditory or visual cues to orient participants' attention. Indication that endogenous tactile attention is influenced by the sensory modality of the attention directing cues comes from a recent behavioural study by Chica et al. (2007). In their study participants oriented their attention to tactile target locations following either visual or tactile unilateral cues. Behavioural endogenous attention effects were larger when cue and target were presented in the same sensory modality than when they were presented in different sensory modalities (see also Mondor and Amirault, 1998). Importantly, this result indicates that processes related to endogenous tactile attention, that is attentional orienting to locations on the body and somatosensory stimulus processing, may in part be dependent on the sensory modality of the attention directing cue. Both brain imaging and electrophysiological studies have begun to investigate the mechanisms underlying attentional orienting. While fMRI studies have revealed an attention network of frontal and parietal activity during the cue-stimulus interval, electrophysiological studies have now started to unravel the temporal pattern of changes in brain activity during the interval between the onset of an attention directing cue and the onset of a subsequent imperative stimulus in cue-locked event-related brain potentials (ERPs). These studies have shown that two successive lateralised ERP components are elicited which are sensitive to the direction of the cued attentional shift (e.g. Hopf and Mangun, 2000;Nobre et al., 2000;. More specifically, following c...

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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ERP correlates of tactile spatial attention differ under intra- and intermodal conditions

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Sambo

Pavone

2009

Biological Psychology

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“…The ADAN and the LDAP reflect an enhanced frontal negativity and enhanced posterior positivity, respectively, which develop a contralateral to an attentional shift induced by a cue. These components are considered to represent supramodal control of spatial attention and specification of different spatial parameters of a prepared movement (Gherri, Van Velzen, & Eimer, 2007;Seiss, Gherri, Eardley, & Eimer, 2007;Praamstra, Boutsen, & Humphreys, 2005;Eimer & Van Velzen, 2002;Hopf & Mangun, 2000).…”

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“…Previous EEG research on covert attention orientation and movement preparation has shown that a frontal negativity (i.e., ADAN) and a posterior positivity (i.e., LDAP) develop contralaterally to a cued spatial location and/or response side, shortly after the onset of a directional cue Seiss et al, 2007;Mathews, Ainsley Dean, & Sterr, 2006;Eimer, Forster, Van Velzen, & Prabhu, 2005;Praamstra et al, 2005;Hopf & Mangun, 2000;Nobre, Sebestyen, & Miniussi, 2000). In this study, the ADAN and the LDAP were only present when the cue instructed the planning of an individual unimanual action, which indicated that transient attentional shifts occurred toward the responding hand and the location of the object.…”

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Attention Allocation and Task Representation during Joint Action Planning

Kourtis

Knoblich²,

Woźniak

et al. 2014

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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Abstract■ We investigated whether people take into account an interaction partnerʼs attentional focus and whether they represent in advance their partnerʼs part of the task when planning to engage in a synchronous joint action. The experiment involved two participants planning and performing joint actions (i.e., synchronously lifting and clinking glasses), unimanual individual actions (i.e., lifting and moving a glass as if clinking with another person), and bimanual individual actions. EEG was recorded from one of the participants. We employed a choice reaction paradigm where a visual cue indicated the type of action to be planned, followed 1.5 sec later by a visual go stimulus, prompting the participants to act. We studied attention allocation processes by examining two lateralized EEG components, namely the anterior directing attention negativity and the late directing attention positivity. Action planning processes were examined using the late contingent negative variation and the movement-related potential. The results show that early stages of joint action planning involve dividing attention between locations in space relevant for oneʼs own part of the joint action and locations relevant for oneʼs partnerʼs part of the joint action. At later stages of joint action planning, participants represented in advance their partnerʼs upcoming action in addition to their own action, although not at an effector-specific level. Our study provides electrophysiological evidence supporting the operation of attention sharing processes and predictive self/other action representation during the planning phase of a synchronous joint task. ■

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“…Waveforms in the prefrontal regions may not be subject to lateralisation effects (particularly for the prefrontal bias signal), in that representation of visual stimuli should not occur (see for instance Liesefeld, Liesefeld & Zimmer, 2013). However, the ADAN is known to be a lateralised component (Seiss, Gherri, Eardley, & Eimer, 2007) and the same logic as for the N2pc and CDA may apply.…”

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“…In sum, the N2pc is thought to reflect the selection of items (Eimer, 1996;Luck, Girelli, McDermott, & Ford, 1997;Luck & Hillyard, 1994ab;Woodman, Kang, Rossi, & Schall, 2007;Woodman & Luck, 2003;Hopf et al, 2000) whereas the CDA reflects the storage of the filtered items (McCollough, Machizawa, & Vogel, 2007) after active suppression/selection (prefrontal bias) and in concomitance with supramodal attentional control (ADAN; see Couperus, Alperin, Furlong, & Mott, 2014;Seiss, Gherri, Eardley, & Eimer, 2007).…”

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Interplay between supramodal attentional control and capacity limits in the low-level visual processors modulate the tendency to inattention

Papera

Richards

2017

Consciousness and Cognition

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When engaged in a demanding task, individuals may neglect unexpected visual stimuli presented concomitantly. Here we use a change detection task to show that propensity to inattention is associated with a flexible allocation of attentional resources to filter and represent visual information. This was reflected by N2 posterior contralateral (N2pc) and contralateral delay activity (CDA) respectively, but also during high-order reorienting of attentional resources (known as anterior directing attention negativity, ADAN). Results show that differences in noticing and failing to notice unexpected stimuli/changes are associated with different patterns of brain activity. When processing (N2) and working memory (CDA) capacities are low, resources are mostly allocated to small set-sizes and associated with a tendency to filter information during early low-level processing (N2). When resources are high, saturation is obtained with larger set-sizes. This is also associated to a tendency to select (N2) and reorient resources (ADAN) to maintain extra information (CDA).

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Do ERP components triggered during attentional orienting represent supramodal attentional control?

Cited by 40 publications

References 12 publications

ERP correlates of tactile spatial attention differ under intra- and intermodal conditions

ERP correlates of tactile spatial attention differ under intra- and intermodal conditions

Attention Allocation and Task Representation during Joint Action Planning

Interplay between supramodal attentional control and capacity limits in the low-level visual processors modulate the tendency to inattention

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