Publications

Authors:

Natale, Elena; Marzi, Carlo Alberto; Macaluso, E.

Title:

Right Temporal-Parietal Junction engagement during spatial reorienting does not depend on strategic attention control.

Year:

2010

Type of item:

Articolo in Rivista

Tipologia ANVUR:

Articolo su rivista

Language:

Inglese

Format:

A Stampa

Referee:

Sì

Name of journal:

Neuropsychologia

ISSN of journal:

0028-3932

N° Volume:

48

Number or Folder:

4

:

Elsevier (Imprint Pergamon Press)

Page numbers:

1160-1164

Keyword:

visual information processing; contingent attentional capture; cue-target paradigm; event-related design; ventral fronto-parietal network; temporo-parietal junction

Short description of contents:

Targets presented outside the focus of attention trigger stimulus-driven spatial reorienting and activation of the right temporal-parietal junction (rTPJ). However, event-related functional resonance imaging (fMRI) studies that used task-irrelevant non-predictive cues systematically failed to activate rTPJ, suggesting that this region controls reorienting only when attention is shifted between two task-relevant locations. Here we challenge this view showing that non-predictive peripheral cues can affect activity in rTPJ, but only when they share a feature with the target: i.e. when they are set-relevant. Trials including a set-relevant cue plus a target on the uncued/unattended side produced the slowest reaction times and selective activation of the rTPJ. These findings demonstrate that rTPJ is not involved only in reorienting between two task-relevant locations, but engages also when non-predictive cues are set-relevant, thereby, irrespective of voluntary attention and breaches of task-related expectations.

Web page:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.11.012

Product ID:

54330

Handle IRIS:

11562/338260

Deposited On:

February 26, 2010

Last Modified:

November 15, 2022

Bibliographic citation:

Natale, Elena; Marzi, Carlo Alberto; Macaluso, E., Right Temporal-Parietal Junction engagement during spatial reorienting does not depend on strategic attention control. «Neuropsychologia» , vol. 48 , n. 4 , 2010 , pp. 1160-1164

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