BBSRC David Phillips Fellowship: Investigating the neural basis of selective attention in the human brain: A combined neurodisruption and neuroimaging
Lead Research Organisation:
University College London
Department Name: Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
Abstract
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Technical Summary
The aim of this research programme is to elucidate the neural basis of selective attention in the human brain. The project will exploit a unique combination of experimental techniques to establish the nature of attentional interactions between higher brain structures and lower sensory regions. Regime A will use simultaneous brain-stimulation and brain-imaging to establish the nature of functional connections between parietal cortex, frontal cortex and sensory cortex in the control of visual attention. Regime B will employ transcranial magnetic stimulation to determine the time-course of attentional signals between frontal, parietal and sensory regions. Together these studies will provide significant new insights into the mechanisms of attention in the healthy human brain, with implications for attentional impairments caused by brain injury and disease.
Organisations
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| Christopher Chambers (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Adams RC
(2012)
Mapping the timecourse of goal-directed attention to location and colour in human vision.
in Acta psychologica
Chambers CD
(2007)
Dissociable mechanisms of cognitive control in prefrontal and premotor cortex.
in Journal of neurophysiology
Chambers CD
(2013)
Is delayed foveal feedback critical for extra-foveal perception?
in Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior
Chambers CD
(2010)
TMS and the functional neuroanatomy of attention.
in Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior
Chambers CD
(2007)
Parietal disruption impairs reflexive spatial attention within and between sensory modalities.
in Neuropsychologia
Chambers CD
(2009)
Insights into the neural basis of response inhibition from cognitive and clinical neuroscience.
in Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews
Heinen K
(2011)
Concurrent TMS-fMRI reveals dynamic interhemispheric influences of the right parietal cortex during exogenously cued visuospatial attention.
in The European journal of neuroscience
Maizey L
(2013)
Comparative incidence rates of mild adverse effects to transcranial magnetic stimulation.
in Clinical neurophysiology : official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology
Rusconi E
(2013)
Critical time course of right frontoparietal involvement in mental number space.
in Journal of cognitive neuroscience
Schenkluhn B
(2008)
Parietal stimulation decouples spatial and feature-based attention.
in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience