Nat Rev Neurosci March 2002 PMID 11994752

Control of goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention in the brain.

Maurizio Corbetta, Gordon L Shulman

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The discussions highlight an overall interest in the topic, with posts praising the clarity of the explanation and emphasizing its importance by referencing related models and theories, such as the model by Corbetta and Shulman. The tone varies from supportive to inquisitive, reflecting engaging but not overly speculative conversations that acknowledge the article’s contribution to cognitive neuroscience.

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The brain has two partially separate attention systems: one for goal-directed, top-down attention involving the intraparietal and superior frontal cortex, which prepares and applies focused attention based on goals and stimuli detection, and another for stimulus-driven, bottom-up attention mainly in the right hemisphere, involving the temporoparietal and inferior frontal cortex, that detects salient or unexpected stimuli.
The stimulus-driven system acts as a "circuit breaker" to the goal-directed system by shifting attention toward important or unexpected events, especially when they are behaviorally relevant or salient.
Both attentional systems interact during normal vision, but damage to either system, such as in unilateral spatial neglect, can disrupt normal attentional functioning.

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RT @8Eevert: @NeurologistMom @MBVanElzakker > Top-down cognitive control vs. Bottom-up attentional capture Great explainer!

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@NeurologistMom @MBVanElzakker > Top-down cognitive control vs. Bottom-up attentional capture Great explainer!

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related and importanat in that context :Control of goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention in the brain www.nature.com/articles/nrn... ; Anxiety and cognitive performance: attentional control theory. Emotion (Washington, D.C.), 7(2), 336–353. doi.org/10.1037/1528...

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RT @Dyzer_Nihil: Para profundizar, recomiendo echarle un vistazo al modelo planteado por Corbetta y Shulman (2002) en el siguiente artículo…

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