Default Network Activity Is Associated with Better Performance in a Vigilance Task

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Carsten BoglerJohn-Dylan Haynes

Abstract

When attention has to be maintained over prolonged periods performance slowly fluctuates and errors can occur. It has been shown that lapses of attention are correlated with BOLD signals in frontal and parietal cortex. This raises the question how attentional fluctuations are linked to the fronto-parietal default network. Because the attentional state fluctuates slowly we expect that potential links between attentional fluctuations and brain activity should be observable on longer time scales and importantly also before the execution of the task. In the present study we used fMRI to identify brain activity that is correlated with vigilance, defined as fluctuations of reaction times (RT) during a sustained attention task. We found that brain activity in visual cortex, parietal lobe (PL), inferior and superior frontal gyrus, and supplementary motor area (SMA) was higher when the subject had a relatively long RT. In contrast to our expectations, activity in the default network (DN) was higher when subjects had a relatively short RT, that means when the performance was improved. This modulation in the DN was present already several seconds before the task execution, thus pointing to activity in the DN as a potential cause of perfor...Continue Reading

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