On the Origin of Event-Related Potentials Indexing Covert Attentional Selection During Visual Search Export

@article{citeulike:5971694, abstract = {Despite nearly a century of electrophysiological studies recording extracranially from humans and intracranially from monkeys, the neural generators of nearly all human event-related potentials (ERPs) have not been definitively localized. We recorded an attention-related ERP component, known as the N2pc, simultaneously with intracranial spikes and local field potentials (LFPs) in macaques to test the hypothesis that an attentional-control structure, the frontal eye field (FEF), contributed to the generation of the macaque homologue of the N2pc (m-N2pc). While macaques performed a difficult visual search task, the search target was selected earliest by spikes from single FEF neurons, later by FEF LFPs, and latest by the m-N2pc. This neurochronometric comparison provides an empirical bridge connecting macaque and human experiments and a step toward localizing the neural generator of this important attention-related ERP component. 10.1152/jn.00680.2009}, author = {Cohen, Jeremiah Y. and Heitz, Richard P. and Schall, Jeffrey D. and Woodman, Geoffrey F.}, citeulike-article-id = {5971694}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.00680.2009}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://jn.physiology.org/content/102/4/2375.abstract}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://jn.physiology.org/content/102/4/2375.full.pdf}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19675287}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=19675287}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1152/jn.00680.2009}, journal = {J Neurophysiol}, keywords = {attention, erps}, month = {October}, number = {4}, pages = {2375--2386}, posted-at = {2009-11-09 06:21:23}, priority = {2}, title = {On the Origin of Event-Related Potentials Indexing Covert Attentional Selection During Visual Search}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.00680.2009}, volume = {102}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5971694 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5971694 N2 - Despite nearly a century of electrophysiological studies recording extracranially from humans and intracranially from monkeys, the neural generators of nearly all human event-related potentials (ERPs) have not been definitively localized. We recorded an attention-related ERP component, known as the N2pc, simultaneously with intracranial spikes and local field potentials (LFPs) in macaques to test the hypothesis that an attentional-control structure, the frontal eye field (FEF), contributed to the generation of the macaque homologue of the N2pc (m-N2pc). While macaques performed a difficult visual search task, the search target was selected earliest by spikes from single FEF neurons, later by FEF LFPs, and latest by the m-N2pc. This neurochronometric comparison provides an empirical bridge connecting macaque and human experiments and a step toward localizing the neural generator of this important attention-related ERP component. 10.1152/jn.00680.2009 IS - 4 JF - J Neurophysiol EP - 2386 TI - On the Origin of Event-Related Potentials Indexing Covert Attentional Selection During Visual Search VL - 102 SP - 2375 KW - attention KW - erps AU - Cohen, Jeremiah AU - Heitz, Richard AU - Schall, Jeffrey AU - Woodman, Geoffrey PY - 2009/10/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.00680.2009 ER -