Building on a Solid Baseline: Anticipatory Biases in Attention

Anna C Nobre; John T Serences

doi:10.1016/j.tins.2018.01.005

Building on a Solid Baseline: Anticipatory Biases in Attention

Trends Neurosci. 2018 Mar;41(3):120-122. doi: 10.1016/j.tins.2018.01.005.

Authors

Anna C Nobre¹, John T Serences²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Experimental Psychology Department, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Department of Psychiatry, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Electronic address: kia.nobre@psy.ox.ac.uk.
² Psychology Department, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA; Neurosciences Graduate Program, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA; Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA. Electronic address: jserences@ucsd.edu.

Abstract

A brain-imaging paper by Kastner and colleagues in 1999 was the first to demonstrate that merely focusing attention at a spatial location changed the baseline activity level in various regions of human visual cortex even before any stimuli appeared. The study provided a touchstone for investigating cognitive-sensory interactions and understanding the proactive endogenous signals that shape perception.

Keywords: anticipatory bias; encoding models; expectation; fMRI; multivariate pattern analysis; visual cortex.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Attention / physiology*
Brain Mapping
Humans
Orientation / physiology*
Photic Stimulation / methods
Space Perception / physiology*
Visual Cortex / physiology*

Abstract

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MeSH terms

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