ReviewThe European journal of neuroscience2021
Structure, function and connectivity fingerprints of the frontal eye field versus the inferior frontal junction: A comprehensive comparison.
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- Eye-tracking phenotypes reveal clinically meaningful heterogeneity of attention and executive control dysfunction after stroke.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2026Article
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- Visual awareness of stimulus features shapes motor control through action end-state comfort.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- Convergent causal mapping unravels distinct frontal networks for visuospatial selective attention.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Decoding covert visual attention of electroencephalography signals using continuous wavelet transform and deep learning approach.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Neural structural underlying audiovisual working memory and visual dominance under cognitive load.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Preparatory attentional templates in prefrontal and sensory cortex encode target-associated information.eLife · 2025Article
- Near-random connections support top-down feature-based attentional modulations in early sensory cortex.PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
- Revised cytoarchitectonic mapping of the human premotor cortex identifies seven areas and refines the localisation of frontal eye fields.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Sensitivity of the inferior frontal gyrus to morphological processing through the detection of category violation.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Association of aberrant brain network connectivity with visual dysfunction in patients with nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy: a pilot study.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2025Article
- The Inferior Frontal Junction Jointly Encodes Target Identity and Feature Uncertainty.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
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Abstract
The human prefrontal cortex contains two prominent areas, the frontal eye field and the inferior frontal junction, that are crucially involved in the orchestrating functions of attention, working memory and cognitive control. Motivated by comparative evidence in non-human primates, we review the human neuroimaging literature, suggesting that the functions of these regions can be clearly dissociated. We found remarkable differences in how these regions relate to sensory domains and visual topography, top-down and bottom-up spatial attention, spatial versus non-spatial (i.e., feature- and object-based) attention and working memory and, finally, the multiple-demand system. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies using multivariate pattern analysis reveal the selectivity of the frontal eye field and inferior frontal junction to spatial and non-spatial information, respectively. The analysis of functional and effective connectivity provides evidence of the modulation of the activity in downstream visual areas from the frontal eye field and inferior frontal junction and sheds light on their reciprocal influences. We therefore suggest that future studies should aim at disentangling more explicitly the role of these regions in the control of spatial and non-spatial selection. We propose that the analysis of the structural and functional connectivity (i.e., the connectivity fingerprints) of the frontal eye field and inferior frontal junction may be used to further characterize their involvement in a spatial ('where') and a non-spatial ('what') network, respectively, highlighting segregated brain networks that allow biasing visual selection and working memory performance to support goal-driven behaviour.
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