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Right Temporal-Parietal Junction engagement during spatial reorienting does not depend on strategic attention control.  (2010)

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:
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. 42010pp. 1160-1164

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