@article {4831,
	title = {The human endogenous attentional control network includes a ventro-temporal cortical node},
	journal = {Nature Communications},
	volume = {12},
	year = {2021},
	month = {02/2021},
	abstract = {<p>Endogenous attention is the cognitive function that selects the relevant pieces of sensory information to achieve goals and it is known to be controlled by dorsal fronto-parietal brain areas. Here we expand this notion by identifying a control attention area located in the temporal lobe. By combining a demanding behavioral paradigm with functional neuroimaging and diffusion tractography, we show that like fronto-parietal attentional areas, the human posterior inferotemporal cortex exhibits significant attentional modulatory activity. This area is functionally distinct from surrounding cortical areas, and is directly connected to parietal and frontal attentional regions. These results show that attentional control spans three cortical lobes and overarches large distances through fiber pathways that run orthogonally to the dominant anterior-posterior axes of sensory processing, thus suggesting a different organizing principle for cognitive control.</p>
},
	doi = {10.1038/s41467-020-20583-5},
	url = {http://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-20583-5},
	author = {Sani, Ilaria and Stemmann, Heiko and Caron, Bradley and Bullock, Daniel and Stemmler, Torsten and Fahle, Manfred and Pestilli, Franco and W. A. Freiwald}
}
@article {4503,
	title = {Evidence for an attentional priority map in inferotemporal cortex},
	journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences},
	volume = {116},
	year = {2019},
	month = {11/2019},
	pages = {23797 - 23805},
	abstract = {<p>From incoming sensory information, our brains make selections according to current behavioral goals. This process, selective attention, is controlled by parietal and frontal areas. Here, we show that another brain area, posterior inferotemporal cortex (PITd), also exhibits the defining properties of attentional control. We discovered this area with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during an attentive motion discrimination task. Single-cell recordings from PITd revealed strong attentional modulation across 3 attention tasks yet no tuning to task-relevant stimulus features, like motion direction or color. Instead, PITd neurons closely tracked the subject{\textquoteright}s attention state and predicted upcoming errors of attentional selection. Furthermore, artificial electrical PITd stimulation controlled the location of attentional selection without altering feature discrimination. These are the defining properties of a feature-blind priority map encoding the locus of attention. Together, these results suggest area PITd, located strategically to gather information about object properties, as an attentional priority map.</p>
},
	issn = {0027-8424},
	doi = {10.1073/pnas.1821866116},
	url = {http://www.pnas.org/lookup/doi/10.1073/pnas.1821866116},
	author = {Stemmann, Heiko and W. A. Freiwald}
}
