Abstract
Selective attention comprises essential infrastructural functions supporting cognition—anticipating, prioritizing, selecting, routing, integrating, and preparing signals to guide adaptive behavior. Most studies have examined its consequences, systems, and mechanisms in a static way, but attention is at the confluence of multiple sources of flux. The world advances, we operate within it, our minds change, and all resulting signals progress through multiple pathways within the dynamic networks of our brains. Our aim in this review is to raise awareness of and interest in three important facets of how timing impacts our understanding of attention. These include the challenges posed to attention by the timing of neural processing and psychological functions, the opportunities conferred to attention by various temporal structures in the environment, and how tracking the time courses of neural and behavioral modulations with continuous measures yields surprising insights into the workings and principles of attention.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 971-986 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Neuron |
| Volume | 111 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| Early online date | 5 Apr 2023 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 5 Apr 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This research was supported by a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award ( 104571/Z/14/Z ) and a James S. McDonnell Foundation Understanding Human Cognition Collaborative Award ( 220020448 ) to A.C.N., an ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council (MEMTICIPATION, 850636 ) and a Vidi Grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO grant 14721 ) to F.v.E., and by the NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre . The Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging is supported by core funding from the Wellcome Trust ( 203139/Z/16/Z ). We further wish to thank Assaf Breska for providing the raw data to create Figure 2 A and Sage Boettcher, Irene Echeverria-Altuna, and Daniela Gresch for thoughtful comments on the draft. This research was funded in part by the Wellcome Trust (grant numbers 104571/Z/14/Z, 203139/Z/16/Z). For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright license to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Elsevier Inc.
Funding
This research was supported by a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award ( 104571/Z/14/Z ) and a James S. McDonnell Foundation Understanding Human Cognition Collaborative Award ( 220020448 ) to A.C.N., an ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council (MEMTICIPATION, 850636 ) and a Vidi Grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO grant 14721 ) to F.v.E., and by the NIHR Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre . The Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging is supported by core funding from the Wellcome Trust ( 203139/Z/16/Z ). We further wish to thank Assaf Breska for providing the raw data to create Figure 2 A and Sage Boettcher, Irene Echeverria-Altuna, and Daniela Gresch for thoughtful comments on the draft. This research was funded in part by the Wellcome Trust (grant numbers 104571/Z/14/Z, 203139/Z/16/Z). For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright license to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.
| Funders | Funder number |
|---|---|
| MEMTICIPATION | 850636 |
| James S. McDonnell Foundation | 220020448 |
| James S. McDonnell Foundation | |
| Wellcome Trust | 104571/Z/14/Z |
| Wellcome Trust | |
| European Research Council | |
| Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek | 14721 |
| Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek | |
| NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre | 203139/Z/16/Z |
| NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre |
Keywords
- action
- anticipation
- dynamics
- expectation
- orienting
- predictive coding
- temporal
- timing
- vision
- working memory