TY - JOUR
T1 - From Behavior to Neural Dynamics
T2 - An Integrated Theory of Attention
AU - Buschman, Timothy J.
AU - Kastner, Sabine
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2015/10/7
Y1 - 2015/10/7
N2 - The brain has a limited capacity and therefore needs mechanisms to selectively enhance the information most relevant to one's current behavior. We refer to these mechanisms as "attention." Attention acts by increasing the strength of selected neural representations and preferentially routing them through the brain's large-scale network. This is a critical component of cognition and therefore has been a central topic in cognitive neuroscience. Here we review a diverse literature that has studied attention at the level of behavior, networks, circuits, and neurons. We then integrate these disparate results into a unified theory of attention.
AB - The brain has a limited capacity and therefore needs mechanisms to selectively enhance the information most relevant to one's current behavior. We refer to these mechanisms as "attention." Attention acts by increasing the strength of selected neural representations and preferentially routing them through the brain's large-scale network. This is a critical component of cognition and therefore has been a central topic in cognitive neuroscience. Here we review a diverse literature that has studied attention at the level of behavior, networks, circuits, and neurons. We then integrate these disparate results into a unified theory of attention.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.09.017
DO - 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.09.017
M3 - Review article
C2 - 26447577
AN - SCOPUS:84943234366
SN - 0896-6273
VL - 88
SP - 127
EP - 144
JO - Neuron
JF - Neuron
IS - 1
M1 - 12831
ER -