Attention extracts signal in external noise: a BOLD fMRI study.

Abstract:

:On the basis of results from behavioral studies that spatial attention improves the exclusion of external noise in the target region, we predicted that attending to a spatial region would reduce the impact of external noise on the BOLD response in corresponding cortical areas, seen as reduced BOLD responses in conditions with large amounts of external noise but relatively low signal, and increased dynamic range of the BOLD response to variations in signal contrast. We found that, in the presence of external noise, covert attention reduced the trial-by-trial BOLD response by 15.5-18.9% in low signal contrast conditions in V1. It also increased the BOLD dynamic range in V1, V2, V3, V3A/B, and V4 by a factor of at least three. Overall, covert attention reduced the impact of external noise by about 73-85% in these early visual areas. It also increased the contrast gain by a factor of 2.6-3.8.

journal_name

J Cogn Neurosci

authors

Lu ZL,Li X,Tjan BS,Dosher BA,Chu W

doi

10.1162/jocn.2010.21511

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2011-05-01 00:00:00

pages

1148-59

issue

5

eissn

0898-929X

issn

1530-8898

journal_volume

23

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