Activate Activate Activate
contact  
Hello. Sign in to personalize your visit. New user? Register now.  

In
By author
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Monthly
160 pp. per issue
8 1/2 x 11, illustrated
Founded: 1989
ISSN 0898-929X
E-ISSN 1530-8898
2008 ISI Impact Factor: 4.867

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

August 2005, Vol. 17, No. 8, Pages 1245-1260
Posted Online March 13, 2006.
(doi:10.1162/0898929055002409)
© 2005 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Selective Attention Modulates Neural Substrates of Repetition Priming and “Implicit” Visual Memory: Suppressions and Enhancements Revealed by fMRI

Patrik Vuilleumier

University Medical Center, Geneva, Switzerland

University of Geneva, Switzerland

University College London

Sophie Schwartz

University Medical Center, Geneva, Switzerland

Stéphanie Duhoux

University Medical Center, Geneva, Switzerland

Raymond J. Dolan

Institute of Neurology, London

Jon Driver

Institute of Neurology, London

University College London

PDF (4,164.165 KB) PDF Plus (373.508 KB)

Attention can enhance processing for relevant information and suppress this for ignored stimuli. However, some residual processing may still arise without attention. Here we presented overlapping outline objects at study, with subjects attending to those in one color but not the other. Attended objects were subsequently recognized on a surprise memory test, whereas there was complete amnesia for ignored items on such direct explicit testing; yet reliable behavioral priming effects were found on indirect testing. Event-related fMRI examined neural responses to previously attended or ignored objects, now shown alone in the same or mirror-reversed orientation as before, intermixed with new items. Repetition-related decreases in fMRI responses for objects previously attended and repeated in the same orientation were found in the right posterior fusiform, lateral occipital, and left inferior frontal cortex. More anterior fusiform regions also showed some repetition decreases for ignored objects, irrespective of orientation. View-specific repetition decreases were found in the striate cortex, particularly for previously attended items. In addition, previously ignored objects produced some fMRI response increases in the bilateral lingual gyri, relative to new objects. Selective attention at exposure can thus produce several distinct long-term effects on processing of stimuli repeated later, with neural response suppression stronger for previously attended objects, and some response enhancement for previously ignored objects, with these effects arising in different brain areas. Although repetition decreases may relate to positive priming phenomena, the repetition increases for ignored objects shown here for the first time might relate to processes that can produce “negative priming” in some behavioral studies. These results reveal quantitative and qualitative differences between neural substrates of long-term repetition effects for attended versus unattended objects.

Cited by

Thomas Ethofer, Benjamin Kreifelts, Sarah Wiethoff, Jonathan Wolf, Wolfgang Grodd, Patrik Vuilleumier, Dirk Wildgruber. (2009) Differential Influences of Emotion, Task, and Novelty on Brain Regions Underlying the Processing of Speech Melody. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 21:7, 1255-1268
Online publication date: 1-Jul-2009.
Abstract | Full Text | PDF (680 KB) | PDF Plus (517 KB) 
Nurit Gronau, Maital Neta, Moshe Bar. (2008) Integrated Contextual Representation for Objects' Identities and Their Locations. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 20:3, 371-388
Online publication date: 1-Mar-2008.
Abstract | PDF (456 KB) | PDF Plus (425 KB) 
Evelyn Eger, John Ashburner, John-Dylan Haynes, Raymond J. Dolan, Geraint Rees. (2008) fMRI Activity Patterns in Human LOC Carry Information about Object Exemplars within Category. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 20:2, 356-370
Online publication date: 1-Feb-2008.
Abstract | PDF (764 KB) | PDF Plus (748 KB) 
Samuel T. Moulton, Stephen M. Kosslyn. (2008) Using Neuroimaging to Resolve the Psi Debate. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 20:1, 182-192
Online publication date: 1-Jan-2008.
Abstract | PDF (580 KB) | PDF Plus (420 KB) 
Technology Partner - Atypon Systems, Inc.
  CrossRef member COUNTER member