Publications

Authors:

Beffara, Bertrand; Hadj-Bouziane, Fadila; Hamed, Suliann Ben; Boehler, C Nico; Chelazzi, Leonardo; Santandrea, Elisa; Macaluso, Emiliano

Title:

Dynamic causal interactions between occipital and parietal cortex explain how endogenous spatial attention and stimulus-driven salience jointly shape the distribution of processing priorities in 2D visual space

Year:

2022

Type of item:

Articolo in Rivista

Tipologia ANVUR:

Articolo su rivista

Language:

Inglese

Format:

Elettronico

Referee:

Sì

Name of journal:

Neuroimage

ISSN of journal:

1053-8119

N° Volume:

255

Number or Folder:

119206

:

Elsevier

Page numbers:

1-18

Keyword:

attention; connectivity; fMRI; space; vision

Short description of contents:

Visuo-spatial attention prioritizes the processing of relevant inputs via different types of signals, including current goals and stimulus salience. Complex mixtures of these signals engage in everyday life situations, but little is known about how these signals jointly modulate distributed patterns of activity across the occipital regions that represent visual space. Here, we measured spatio-topic, quadrant-specific occipital activity during the processing of visual displays containing both task-relevant targets and salient color-singletons. We computed spatial bias vectors indexing the effect of attention in 2D space, as coded by distributed activity in the occipital cortex. We found that goal-directed spatial attention biased activity towards the target and that salience further modulated this endogenous effect: salient distractors decreased the spatial bias, while salient targets increased it. Analyses of effective connectivity revealed that the processing of salient distractors relied on the modulation of the bidirectional connectivity between the occipital and the posterior parietal cortex, as well as the modulation of the lateral interactions within the occipital cortex. These findings demonstrate that goal-directed attention and salience jointly contribute to shaping processing priorities in the occipital cortex and highlight that multiple functional paths determine how spatial information about these signals is distributed across occipital regions.

Web page:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119206

Product ID:

125847

Handle IRIS:

11562/1062127

Last Modified:

November 15, 2022

Bibliographic citation:

Beffara, Bertrand; Hadj-Bouziane, Fadila; Hamed, Suliann Ben; Boehler, C Nico; Chelazzi, Leonardo; Santandrea, Elisa; Macaluso, Emiliano, Dynamic causal interactions between occipital and parietal cortex explain how endogenous spatial attention and stimulus-driven salience jointly shape the distribution of processing priorities in 2D visual space «Neuroimage» , vol. 255 , n. 119206 , 2022 , pp. 1-18

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