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ArticleThe European journal of neuroscience2022

Neuronal correlates of the subjective experience of attention.

Stephen Whitmarsh, Christophe Gitton, Veikko Jousmäki, Jérôme Sackur, Catherine Tallon-Baudry

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Article in The European journal of neuroscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Rhythms in cognition: The evidence revisited.The European journal of neuroscience · 2022
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  6. Neuronal correlates of the subjective experience of attention.The European journal of neuroscience · 2022
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  7. Cardiac sympathetic-vagal activity initiates a functional brain-body response to emotional arousal.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Stephen WhitmarshLaboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Computationnelles, Département d'Études Cognitives de l'École Normale Supérieure, INSERM, PSL University, Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0002-3969-6565
Christophe GittonSorbonne Université, Institut du Cerveau - Paris Brain Institute - ICM, Inserm, CNRS, APHP, Hôpital de la Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0001-7986-0414
Veikko JousmäkiAalto NeuroImaging, Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.ORCID 0000-0003-1963-5834
Jérôme SackurLaboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Département d'Études Cognitives de l'École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, EHESS, PSL University, Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0002-8674-0370
Catherine Tallon-BaudryLaboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Computationnelles, Département d'Études Cognitives de l'École Normale Supérieure, INSERM, PSL University, Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0001-8480-5831

Funding

European Research Council 670325
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The effect of top-down attention on stimulus-evoked responses and alpha oscillations and the association between arousal and pupil diameter are well established. However, the relationship between these indices, and their contribution to the subjective experience of attention, remains largely unknown. Participants performed a sustained (10-30 s) attention task in which rare (10%) targets were detected within continuous tactile stimulation (16 Hz). Trials were followed by attention ratings on an 8-point visual scale. Attention ratings correlated negatively with contralateral somatosensory alpha power and positively with pupil diameter. The effect of pupil diameter on attention ratings extended into the following trial, reflecting a sustained aspect of attention related to vigilance. The effect of alpha power did not carry over to the next trial and furthermore mediated the association between pupil diameter and attention ratings. Variations in steady-state amplitude reflected stimulus processing under the influence of alpha oscillations but were only weakly related to subjective ratings of attention. Together, our results show that both alpha power and pupil diameter are reflected in the subjective experience of attention, albeit on different time spans, while continuous stimulus processing might not contribute to the experience of attention.

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ArousalTouchHumansalphaattentionmetacognitionpupilsomatosensorysteady-state

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PMID34278629
PMCPMC9540477

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