Backward masked fearful faces enhance contralateral occipital cortical activity for visual targets within the spotlight of attention.

Abstract:

:Spatial attention has been argued to be adaptive by enhancing the processing of visual stimuli within the 'spotlight of attention'. We previously reported that crude threat cues (backward masked fearful faces) facilitate spatial attention through a network of brain regions consisting of the amygdala, anterior cingulate and contralateral visual cortex. However, results from previous functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) dot-probe studies have been inconclusive regarding a fearful face-elicited contralateral modulation of visual targets. Here, we tested the hypothesis that the capture of spatial attention by crude threat cues would facilitate processing of subsequently presented visual stimuli within the masked fearful face-elicited 'spotlight of attention' in the contralateral visual cortex. Participants performed a backward masked fearful face dot-probe task while brain activity was measured with fMRI. Masked fearful face left visual field trials enhanced activity for spatially congruent targets in the right superior occipital gyrus, fusiform gyrus and lateral occipital complex, while masked fearful face right visual field trials enhanced activity in the left middle occipital gyrus. These data indicate that crude threat elicited spatial attention enhances the processing of subsequent visual stimuli in contralateral occipital cortex, which may occur by lowering neural activation thresholds in this retinotopic location.

authors

Carlson JM,Reinke KS,LaMontagne PJ,Habib R

doi

10.1093/scan/nsq076

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2011-10-01 00:00:00

pages

639-45

issue

5

eissn

1749-5016

issn

1749-5024

pii

nsq076

journal_volume

6

pub_type

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