Brain, Vol. 122, No. 6, 1093-1106,
June 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press
A large-scale distributed network for covert spatial attention
Further anatomical delineation based on stringent behavioural and cognitive controls
1 Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center, 2 Departments of Neurology and 3 Radiology, Northwestern University Medical School, 4 Chicago V.A. Healthcare System Lakeside Division, Chicago, USA and 5 Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford,Oxford, UK
Correspondence to:
Darren R. Gitelman, MD, Northwestern University Medical School, 320 E. Superior St., Searle 11–470, Chicago, IL 60611, USA E-mail: d-gitelman{at}nwu.edu
Functional MRI was used to examine cerebral activations in 12 subjects while they performed a spatial attention task. This study applied more stringent behavioural and cognitive controls than previously used for similar experiments: (i) subjects were included only if they showed evidence of attentional shifts while performing the task in the magnet; (ii) the experimental task and baseline condition were designed to eliminate the contributions of motor output, visual fixation, inhibition of eye movements, working memory and the conditional (no-go) component of responding. Activations were seen in all three hypothesized cortical epicentres forming a network for spatial attention: the lateral premotor cortex (frontal eye fields), the posterior parietal cortex and the cingulate cortex. Subcortical activations were seen in the basal ganglia and the thalamus. Although the task required attention to be equally shifted to the left and to the right, eight of 10 subjects showed a greater area of activation in the right parietal cortex, consistent with the specialization of the right hemisphere for spatial attention. Other areas of significant activation included the posterior temporo-occipital cortex and the anterior insula. The temporo-occipital activation was within a region broadly defined as MT+ (where MT is the middle temporal area) which contains the human equivalent of area MT in the macaque monkey. This temporo-occipital area appears to constitute a major component of the functional network activated by this spatial attention task. Its activation may reflect the `inferred' shift of the attentional focus across the visual scene.
attention; hemispheric dominance; networks; spatial orientation
BA = Brodmann area; fMRI = functional MRI; FST = floor of the superior temporal visual area; MST = medial superior temporal area; MT = middle temporal area; SPM = statistical parametric map
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