Attentional allocation on the timescale investigated here has often been thought of as automatic and reflexive, however.
Improved search performance could result from enhancements in various cognitive processing stages, including (1) sensory processing, (2) attentional allocation, (3) target discrimination, (4) motor-response preparation, and/or (5) response execution.
Interestingly, activation in the rIFG is not uniquely related to response inhibition but instead to attentional allocation when a stimulus is detected.
Attentional allocation is flexibly altered by action-related priorities.
These results then support a particular feature-based attentional allocation mechanism for when EFs are present.
Professor Prat's work in organizational economics investigates, both theoretically and empirically, how attentional allocation patterns affect organizational performance.
These HG power increases were modulated by the phase of the ongoing delta/theta (2-5 Hz) oscillation during attentional allocation.
While anterior striatum dopamine likely does guide value-based reward seeking, posterior striatum dopamine could guide a totally separate cognitive process, such as attentional allocation.
But in order to apply this approach appropriately, one must first better understand the neural correlates of the CSE in terms of how it evolves over time and what the attentional allocation mechanisms behind it are.
A theoretical model based on the salience of extrapersonal space appears useful for understanding alterations of attentional allocation, particularly after recovery from stroke.
The current findings suggest that physical fitness, but not an acute bout of aerobic exercise enhances cognitive processing by increasing attentional allocation to stimulus encoding during task preparation.
