The positive anterior difference in ERPs at 130 170 ms post-stimulus probably indexed pre-attentive attention orienting towards emotionally significant changes.
Eighty participants completed one of four attentional tests designed to assess sustained attention (SUSTAIN), attentional orienting (ORIENT), divided attention (DIVIDE) or selective attention (SELECT).
Especially, our earlier study identified and quantified the difference in causal streams along the DAN between voluntary orienting of attention (orienting) and those for withholding attentional deployment (holding) [16].
Our fMRI data and the results of pGC analysis indicate that frontal-to-parietal top-down causal streams along the DAN were exclusively related to voluntary orienting of attention (orienting), not to any other less-attentive states.
Dehaene and his colleagues therefore proposed that this region of the brain, in addition to being involved in attention orienting in space, can also contribute to attentional selection on other mental dimensions that are analogous to space, such as numbers [32].
(2) The posterior attentional network has been suggested to involve sensory attention orienting and is reliant on the functioning of the posterior parietal cortex, superior colliculi and thalamic pulvinar nuclei [ 6].
The ability of positive and negative facial signals to influence attention orienting is crucial to social functioning.
However, virtually no research examines such age-related differences in the neural circuitry supporting attention orienting to emotional faces.
This questions about the particular power of the own first-name to automatically orient attention, but no study investigated the specific response to this special stimulus in a paradigm designed to study automatic attention orienting.
