The attention system of the human brain: 20 years after

SE Petersen, MI Posner - Annual review of neuroscience, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Here, we update our 1990 Annual Review of Neuroscience article,“The Attention System of
the Human Brain.” The framework presented in the original article has helped to integrate …

Modes and models of forebrain cholinergic neuromodulation of cognition

ME Hasselmo, M Sarter - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2011 - nature.com
As indicated by the profound cognitive impairments caused by cholinergic receptor
antagonists, cholinergic neurotransmission has a vital role in cognitive function, specifically …

Attention, uncertainty, and free-energy

H Feldman, KJ Friston - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2010 - frontiersin.org
We suggested recently that attention can be understood as inferring the level of uncertainty
or precision during hierarchical perception. In this paper, we try to substantiate this claim …

Testing the efficiency and independence of attentional networks

J Fan, BD McCandliss, T Sommer, A Raz… - Journal of cognitive …, 2002 - direct.mit.edu
In recent years, three attentional networks have been defined in anatomical and functional
terms. These functions involve alerting, orienting, and executive attention. Reaction time …

Action understanding and active inference

K Friston, J Mattout, J Kilner - Biological cybernetics, 2011 - Springer
We have suggested that the mirror-neuron system might be usefully understood as
implementing Bayes-optimal perception of actions emitted by oneself or others. To …

The activation of attentional networks

J Fan, BD McCandliss, J Fossella, JI Flombaum… - Neuroimage, 2005 - Elsevier
Alerting, orienting, and executive control are widely thought to be relatively independent
aspects of attention that are linked to separable brain regions. However, neuroimaging …

The validity of scopolamine as a pharmacological model for cognitive impairment: a review of animal behavioral studies

I Klinkenberg, A Blokland - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2010 - Elsevier
Scopolamine is used as a standard/reference drug for inducing cognitive deficits in healthy
humans and animals. Effects are often interpreted in terms of a role of acetylcholine in …

Alzheimer's disease and the basal forebrain cholinergic system: relations to β-amyloid peptides, cognition, and treatment strategies

DS Auld, TJ Kornecook, S Bastianetto… - Progress in neurobiology, 2002 - Elsevier
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of degenerative dementia and is
characterized by progressive impairment in cognitive function during mid-to late-adult life …

Neuroimaging studies of shifting attention: a meta-analysis

TD Wager, J Jonides, S Reading - Neuroimage, 2004 - Elsevier
This paper reports a meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies of attention shifting and
executive processes in working memory. We analyzed peak activation coordinates from 31 …

Unraveling the attentional functions of cortical cholinergic inputs: interactions between signal-driven and cognitive modulation of signal detection

M Sarter, ME Hasselmo, JP Bruno, B Givens - Brain research reviews, 2005 - Elsevier
Neurophysiological studies demonstrated that increases in cholinergic transmission in
sensory areas enhance the cortical processing of thalamic inputs. Cholinergic activity also …