Anna C. Nobre

TL;DR: Brain-imaging data revealed a partial overlap between neural systems involved in the performance of spatial versus temporal orientation of attention tasks, and hemispheric asymmetries revealed preferential right and left parietal activation for spatial and temporal attention, respectively.

TL;DR: Recent evidence from human neurophysiological studies demonstrating that top-down modulation serves as a common neural mechanism underlying working memory and attention operations is reviewed.

TL;DR: For instance, this paper used PET to image the neural system underlying visuospatial attention and found that the right anterior cingulate gyrus (Brodmann area 24), in the intraparietal sulcus of right posterior parietal cortex, and in the mesial and lateral premotor cortices were observed to form the core of a neural network for spatial attention.

TL;DR: The two attention tasks evoked largely overlapping patterns of neural activation, supporting the existence of a general neural system for visuospatial attention with regional functional specialization.

TL;DR: This work studied visual processing of words and word-like stimuli (letter-strings) by recording field potentials directly from the human inferior temporal lobe and showed that two discrete portions of the fusiform gyrus responded preferentially to letter-strings.