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The Journal of Neuroscience, July 15, 2001, 21(14):5262-5271
Attention Systems and the Organization of the Human
Parietal Cortex
M. F. S.
Rushworth1, 2,
T.
Paus3, and
P. K.
Sipila3
1 Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford
University, Oxford, OX1 3UD, United Kingdom,
2 Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
of the Brain, Department of Clinical Neurology, Oxford University, John
Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, OX3 9DU, United Kingdom, and
3 Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, Quebec,
H3A 2B4 Canada
Event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging was used
to compare activity in the human parietal cortex in two
attention-switching paradigms. On each trial of the visual switching
(VS) paradigm, subjects attended to one of two visual stimuli on the
basis of either their color or shape. Trials were presented in blocks
interleaved with cues instructing subjects to either continue attending
to the currently relevant dimension or to switch to the other stimulus dimension. In the response switching (RS) paradigm, subjects made one
of two manual responses to the single stimulus presented on each trial.
The rules for stimulus-response mapping were reversed on
different trials. Trials were presented in blocks interleaved with cues
that instructed subjects to either switch stimulus-response mapping
rules or to continue with the current rule. Brain activity at
"switch" and "stay" events was compared. The results revealed distinct parietal areas concerned with visual attentional set shifts
(VS) and visuomotor intentional set shifts (RS). In VS, activity was
recorded in the lateral part of the intraparietal region. In RS,
activity was recorded in the posterior medial intraparietal region and
adjacent posterior superior and dorsomedial parietal cortex. The
results also suggest that the basic functional organization of the
intraparietal sulcus and surrounding regions is similar in both macaque
and human species.
Key words:
LIP; MIP; PE; conditional motor selection; intraparietal
sulcus; set-switching
Copyright © 2001 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/01/21145262-10$05.00/0
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