In:
The Journal of Neuroscience, Society for Neuroscience, Vol. 30, No. 47 ( 2010-11-24), p. 15778-15789
Kurzfassung:
Although perceptual decision making activates a network of brain areas involved in sensory, integrative, and motor functions, circuit activity can clearly be modulated by factors beyond the stimulus. Of particular interest is to understand how the network is modulated by top-down factors such as attention. Here, we demonstrate in a motion coherence task that selective attention produces marked changes in the blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) response in a subset of regions within a human perceptual decision-making circuit. Specifically, when motion is attended, the BOLD response decreases with increasing motion coherence in many regions, including the motion-sensitive area MT+, the intraparietal sulcus, and the inferior frontal sulcus. However, when motion is ignored, the negative parametric response in a subset of this circuit becomes positive. Through both modeling and connectivity analyses, we demonstrate that this inversion both reflects a top-down influence and segregates attentional from accumulation regions, thereby permitting us to further delineate the contributions of different regions to the perceptual decision.
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
ISSN:
0270-6474
,
1529-2401
DOI:
10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3163-10.2010
Sprache:
Englisch
Verlag:
Society for Neuroscience
Publikationsdatum:
2010
ZDB Id:
1475274-8
SSG:
12
