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The Journal of Neuroscience, January 15, 2003, 23(2):676-681

Perceptual Attentional Set-Shifting Is Impaired in Rats with Neurotoxic Lesions of Posterior Parietal Cortex

Matthew T. Fox, Morgan D. Barense, and Mark G. Baxter

Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

The posterior parietal cortex (PPC) is believed to be involved in the representation of spatial information, including spatial attentional processing. Because the PPC is extensively interconnected with frontal cortical regions involved in attention and executive function, we sought to determine whether PPC was involved in nonspatial attentional processes such as those of the frontal areas to which it projects. Lesions of the medial frontal cortex (in rats) or lateral prefrontal cortex (in nonhuman primates) impair the ability to shift attention from one perceptual dimension of a stimulus to another (referred to as an extradimensional shift). Rats with neurotoxic lesions of the PPC tested in an attentional set-shifting paradigm demonstrated a pattern of impairment identical to that of rats with medial frontal cortex lesions: they were selectively impaired on the extradimensional shift phase of the task. Performance in other phases of the task was indistinguishable from that of control rats, including the ability to reverse a previously learned discrimination. These findings are consistent with models that assign the PPC a prominent role in cortical attentional processing networks, as well as a role for the PPC in processing information about expectancy and surprise. They also suggest, importantly, that the interaction between the PPC and the frontal cortex is not limited to spatial attentional processing.

Key words: attention; frontal cortex; posterior parietal cortex; rats; reversal learning; set-shifting

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