Chapter 7 Outline

  • Introduction
  • Introductory Box Hemispatial Neglect Syndrome
  • Clinical Evidence for Brain Regions Involved in Attentional Control
  • Control of Voluntary Attention
    • Activation in frontal and parietal cortex during endogenous attentional tasks
    • Delineating the role of the frontoparietal network in the control of attention
    • Ascertaining the temporal flow of brain activations underlying attentional control
    • Single-neuron recordings in frontal and parietal cortex during attentional control
    • Preparatory activation of sensory cortices during attentional control
  • Control of Exogenously Induced Changes in Attention
    • Attentional shifts triggered by sudden stimulus onsets
    • Attentional reorienting activates a ventral frontoparietal system
  • Visual Search
    • Behavioral studies of visual search
    • Theoretical models of visual search
    • Neural processes underlying visual search
  • Attentional Control as a System of Interacting Brain Areas
  • Interactions between Components of the Attentional System
  • Generality of Attentional Control Systems
  • Box 7A The Default-Mode Network
  • Attention, Levels of Arousal, and Consciousness
    • Sleep and wakefulness
    • Consciousness
    • Neural correlates of consciousness in normal subjects
    • Neural correlates of consciousness in pathological conditions
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