Citation

Chambers CD, Payne JM, Stokes MG, Mattingley JB. Nat. Neurosci. 2004; 7(3): 217-218.

Affiliation

Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia. c.chambers@psych.unimelb.edu.au

Copyright

(Copyright © 2004, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1038/nn1203

PMID

14983182

Abstract

Mechanisms of selective attention are vital for guiding human behavior. The parietal cortex has long been recognized as a neural substrate of spatial attention, but the unique role of distinct parietal subregions has remained unclear. Using single-pulse transcranial magnetic stimulation, we found that the angular gyrus of the right parietal cortex mediates spatial orienting during two distinct time periods after the onset of a behaviorally relevant event. The biphasic involvement of the angular gyrus suggests that both fast and slow visual pathways are necessary for orienting spatial attention.

Language: en