The Reorienting System of the Human Brain: From Environment to Theory of Mind Export

@article{citeulike:3055827, abstract = {Survival can depend on the ability to change a current course of action to respond to potentially advantageous or threatening stimuli. This "reorienting" response involves the coordinated action of a right hemisphere dominant ventral frontoparietal network that interrupts and resets ongoing activity and a dorsal frontoparietal network specialized for selecting and linking stimuli and responses. At rest, each network is distinct and internally correlated, but when attention is focused, the ventral network is suppressed to prevent reorienting to distracting events. These different patterns of recruitment may reflect inputs to the ventral attention network from the locus coeruleus/norepinephrine system. While originally conceptualized as a system for redirecting attention from one object to another, recent evidence suggests a more general role in switching between networks, which may explain recent evidence of its involvement in functions such as social cognition.}, author = {Corbetta, Maurizio and Patel, Gaurav and Shulman, Gordon L.}, citeulike-article-id = {3055827}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2008.04.017}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0896627308003693}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18466742}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=18466742}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WSS-4SFRCHN-5/1/5289b678d26d4c9993f4b2d64b434aeb}, day = {08}, doi = {10.1016/j.neuron.2008.04.017}, issn = {08966273}, journal = {Neuron}, keywords = {attention, bottom\_up, dopamine, norepinephrine, parietal\_cortex, prefrontal\_cortex, top\_down}, month = {May}, number = {3}, pages = {306--324}, posted-at = {2008-10-14 00:43:14}, priority = {2}, title = {The Reorienting System of the Human Brain: From Environment to Theory of Mind}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2008.04.017}, volume = {58}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3055827 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3055827 N2 - Survival can depend on the ability to change a current course of action to respond to potentially advantageous or threatening stimuli. This "reorienting" response involves the coordinated action of a right hemisphere dominant ventral frontoparietal network that interrupts and resets ongoing activity and a dorsal frontoparietal network specialized for selecting and linking stimuli and responses. At rest, each network is distinct and internally correlated, but when attention is focused, the ventral network is suppressed to prevent reorienting to distracting events. These different patterns of recruitment may reflect inputs to the ventral attention network from the locus coeruleus/norepinephrine system. While originally conceptualized as a system for redirecting attention from one object to another, recent evidence suggests a more general role in switching between networks, which may explain recent evidence of its involvement in functions such as social cognition. IS - 3 JF - Neuron SN - 08966273 EP - 324 TI - The Reorienting System of the Human Brain: From Environment to Theory of Mind VL - 58 SP - 306 KW - attention KW - bottom_up KW - dopamine KW - norepinephrine KW - parietal_cortex KW - prefrontal_cortex KW - top_down AU - Corbetta, Maurizio AU - Patel, Gaurav AU - Shulman, Gordon PY - 2008/05/08/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2008.04.017 ER -