Brain networks of novelty-driven involuntary and cued voluntary auditory attention shifting.

In everyday life, we need a capacity to flexibly shift attention between alternative sound sources. However, relatively little work has been done to elucidate the mechanisms of attention shifting in the auditory domain. Here, we used a mixed event-related/sparse-sampling fMRI approach to investigate...

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Main Authors: Samantha Huang, John W Belliveau, Chinmayi Tengshe, Jyrki Ahveninen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3429427?pdf=render