Attention-regulated activity in human primary visual cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology
T WatanabeS Miyakawa

Abstract

Effects of attention to a local contour of a moving object on the activation of human primary visual cortex (area V1) were examined. Local cerebral oxygenation changes (an index of neuronal activity) in human area V1 were measured with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in conditions including the following two: 1) when attention was selectively directed toward one side of a moving wedge (the attention condition) and 2) when the wedges were viewed passively (the passive condition). Activation in area V1 was found to be higher in the attention condition than in the passive condition. To our knowledge, this is the first finding that attention to motion activates as early as area V1. We suggest that attentional activation of area V1 is task dependent.

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