ReviewCortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior2018
Selective attention without a neocortex.
Review in Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers.
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- Indirect pathway neurons in the tail of the striatum regulate inhibitory control over sensory driven behavior.Science advances · 2026Article
- Evolutionarily old brainstem neurons are required for the control of selective spatial attention.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Modified specific components of conspecific advertisement calls influence behavioral and neural responses in music frogs.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Single-nucleus profiling decoding the subcortical visual pathway evolution of vertebrates.iScience · 2025Article
- Neuronal correlates of endogenous selective attention in the endbrain of crows.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Identification of movie encoding neurons enables movie recognition AI.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Topography of Cholinergic Nerve Terminal Vulnerability and Balance Self-Efficacy in Parkinson's Disease.Journal of integrative neuroscience · 2024Observational
- Object-based attention requires monocular visual pathways.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2024Article
- Modulation of alpha oscillations by attention is predicted by hemispheric asymmetry of subcortical regions.eLife · 2024Article
- Attention: The blue spot reveals one of its secrets.Neuron · 2024Article
- Visual neurons recognize complex image transformations.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- When the central integrator disintegrates: A review of the role of the thalamus in cognition and dementia.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024Review
- Spatial and single-nucleus transcriptomics decoding the molecular landscape and cellular organization of avian optic tectum.iScience · 2024Article
- Implicit Selective Attention: The Role of the Mesencephalic-basal Ganglia System.Current neuropharmacology · 2024Review
- Peri-Saccadic Orientation Identification Performance and Visual Neural Sensitivity Are Higher in the Upper Visual Field.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Reward history modulates visual attention in an avian model.Animal cognition · 2023Article
- Costs and benefits of voluntary attention in crows.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
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- Acclimatizing and training freely viewing marmosets for behavioral and electrophysiological experiments in oculomotor tasks.Physiological reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
Selective attention refers to the ability to restrict neural processing and behavioral responses to a relevant subset of available stimuli, while simultaneously excluding other valid stimuli from consideration. In primates and other mammals, descriptions of this ability typically emphasize the neural processing that takes place in the cerebral neocortex. However, non-mammals such as birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish, which completely lack a neocortex, also have the ability to selectively attend. In this article, we survey the behavioral evidence for selective attention in non-mammals, and review the midbrain and forebrain structures that are responsible. The ancestral forms of selective attention are presumably selective orienting behaviors, such as prey-catching and predator avoidance. These behaviors depend critically on a set of subcortical structures, including the optic tectum (OT), thalamus and striatum, that are highly conserved across vertebrate evolution. In contrast, the contributions of different pallial regions in the forebrain to selective attention have been subject to more substantial changes and reorganization. This evolutionary perspective makes plain that selective attention is not a function achieved de novo with the emergence of the neocortex, but instead is implemented by circuits accrued and modified over hundreds of millions of years, beginning well before the forebrain contained a neocortex. Determining how older subcortical circuits interact with the more recently evolved components in the neocortex will likely be crucial for understanding the complex properties of selective attention in primates and other mammals, and for identifying the etiology of attention disorders.
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