Journal article
Interactions between Conscious and Subconscious Signals: Selective Attention under Feature-Based Competition Increases Neural Selectivity during Brain Adaptation
The Journal of neuroscience, Vol.39(28), pp.5506-5516
07/10/2019
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3052-18.2019
PMCID: PMC6616293
PMID: 31068438
Abstract
Efficient perception in natural environments depends on neural interactions between voluntary processes within cognitive control, such as attention, and those that are automatic and subconscious, such as brain adaptation to predictable input (also called repetition suppression). Although both attention and adaptation have been studied separately and there is considerable knowledge of the neurobiology involved in each of these processes, how attention interacts with adaptation remains equivocal. We examined how attention interacts with visual and auditory adaptation by measuring neuroimaging effects consistent with changes in either neural gain or selectivity. Male and female human participants were scanned with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) first while they discriminated repetition of morphed faces or voices and either directed their attention to stimulus identity or spatial location. Attention to face or voice identity, while ignoring stimulus location, solely increased the gain of respectively face-or voice-sensitive cortex. The results were strikingly different in an experiment when participants attended to voice identity versus stimulus loudness. In this case, attention to voice while ignoring sound loudness increased neural selectivity. The combined results show that how attention affects adaptation depends on the level of feature-based competition, reconciling prior conflicting observations. The findings are theoretically important and are discussed in relation to neurobiological interactions between attention and different types of predictive signals.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Interactions between Conscious and Subconscious Signals: Selective Attention under Feature-Based Competition Increases Neural Selectivity during Brain Adaptation
- Creators
- Yukiko Kikuchi - Newcastle UniversityJennifer Ip - Newcastle UniversityGaetan Lagier - Newcastle UniversityJames C. Mossom - Newcastle UniversitySukhbinder Kumar - Newcastle UniversityChristopher I. Petkov - University of Newcastle AustraliaNick E. Barraclough - University of YorkQuoc C. Vuong - Newcastle University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The Journal of neuroscience, Vol.39(28), pp.5506-5516
- DOI
- 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3052-18.2019
- PMID
- 31068438
- PMCID
- PMC6616293
- NLM abbreviation
- J Neurosci
- ISSN
- 0270-6474
- eISSN
- 1529-2401
- Publisher
- Soc Neuroscience
- Number of pages
- 11
- Grant note
- European Research Council award (MECHIDENT) Reece Foundation WT092504; WT102961MA / Wellcome Trust; European Commission BB/J009849/1 / BBSRC; UK Research & Innovation (UKRI); Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, BBSRC UK; UK Research & Innovation (UKRI); Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/10/2019
- Academic Unit
- Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Neurosurgery; Otolaryngology
- Record Identifier
- 9984303897102771
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