Voluntary and involuntary attention affect face discrimination differently

Michael Esterman; William Prinzmetal; Joseph DeGutis; Ayelet Landau; Eliot Hazeltine; Timothy Verstynen; Lynn Robertson

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.11.014

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Voluntary and involuntary attention affect face discrimination differently

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Voluntary and involuntary attention affect face discrimination differently

Michael Esterman, William Prinzmetal, Joseph DeGutis, Ayelet Landau, Eliot Hazeltine, Timothy Verstynen and Lynn Robertson

Neuropsychologia, Vol.46(4), pp.1032-1040

2008

DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.11.014

PMID: 18166203

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Abstract

Do voluntary (endogenous) and involuntary (exogenous) attention have the same perceptual consequences? Here we used fMRI to examine activity in the fusiform face area (FFA—a region in ventral visual cortex responsive to faces) and frontal–parietal areas (dorsal regions involved in spatial attention) under voluntary and involuntary spatial cueing conditions. The trial and stimulus parameters were identical for both cueing conditions. However, the cue predicted the location of an upcoming target face in the voluntary condition but was nonpredictive in the involuntary condition. The predictable cue condition led to increased activity in the FFA compared to the nonpredictable cue condition. These results show that voluntary attention leads to more activity in areas of the brain associated with face processing than involuntary attention, and they are consistent with differential behavioral effects of attention on recognition-related processes.

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Title: Subtitle: Voluntary and involuntary attention affect face discrimination differently
Creators: Michael Esterman - Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, United States
William Prinzmetal - Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley CA 94720, United States
Joseph DeGutis - Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley CA 94720, United States
Ayelet Landau - Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley CA 94720, United States
Eliot Hazeltine - Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, United States
Timothy Verstynen - Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, United States
Lynn Robertson - Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley CA 94720, United States
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Neuropsychologia, Vol.46(4), pp.1032-1040
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.11.014
PMID: 18166203
NLM abbreviation: Neuropsychologia
ISSN: 0028-3932
eISSN: 1873-3514
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Language: English
Date published: 2008
Academic Unit: Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
Record Identifier: 9984070212102771

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