α-Band Electroencephalographic Activity over Occipital Cortex Indexes Visuospatial Attention Bias and Predicts Visual Target Detection

Journal of Neuroscience - Tập 26 Số 37 - Trang 9494-9502 - 2006
Gregor Thut1, Annika Nietzel2,3, Stephan A. Brandt3, Álvaro Pascual‐Leone2
1Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Harvard Medical School, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.
2Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Harvard Medical School, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02215,
3Neurology Department, Charite ´, Humboldt University, 10117 Berlin, Germany

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Covertly directing visual attention toward a spatial location in the absence of visual stimulation enhances future visual processing at the attended position. The neuronal correlates of these attention shifts involve modulation of neuronal “baseline” activity in early visual areas, presumably through top-down control from higher-order attentional systems. We used electroencephalography to study the largely unknown relationship between these neuronal modulations and behavioral outcome in an attention orienting paradigm. Covert visuospatial attention shifts to either a left or right peripheral position in the absence of visual stimulation resulted in differential modulations of oscillatory α-band (8–14 Hz) activity over left versus right posterior sites. These changes were driven by varying degrees of α-decreases being maximal contralateral to the attended position. When expressed as a lateralization index, these α-changes differed significantly between attention conditions, with negative values (α_right < α_left) indexing leftward and more positive values (α_left ≤ α_right) indexing rightward attention. Moreover, this index appeared deterministic for processing of forthcoming visual targets. Collapsed over trials, there was an advantage for left target processing in accordance with an overall negative bias in α-index values. Across trials, left targets were detected most rapidly when preceded by negative index values. Detection of right targets was fastest in trials with most positive values. Our data indicate that collateral modulations of posterior α-activity, the momentary bias of visuospatial attention, and imminent visual processing are linked. They suggest that the momentary direction of attention, predicting spatial biases in imminent visual processing, can be estimated from a lateralization index of posterior α-activity.

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Journal of Neuroscience

Tập 26 Số 37

9494-9502

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