Selective attention involves a feature-specific sequential release from inhibitory gating

• Published in: NeuroImage (Orlando, Fla.) Vol. 246; p. 118782
• Main Authors: Pagnotta, Mattia F., Pascucci, David, Plomp, Gijs
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.02.2022; Elsevier Limited; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adult; Alpha rhythm; Alpha Rhythm - physiology; Attention; Attention - physiology; Brain architecture; Cerebral Cortex - physiology; Cognitive ability; Communication; Connectome; EEG; Electroencephalography; Experiments; Feature-based attention; Female; Functional connectivity; Functional morphology; Gating; Human subjects; Humans; Information processing; Inhibitory gating; Male; Nerve Net - physiology; Neural Inhibition - physiology; Neural networks; Rhythms; Sensory Gating - physiology; Young Adult; Functional connectivity; Alpha rhythm; Feature-based attention; Inhibitory gating

Selective attention is a fundamental cognitive mechanism that allows our brain to preferentially process relevant sensory information, while filtering out distracting information. Attention is thought to flexibly gate the communication of irrelevant information through top-down alpha-rhythmic (8–12 ...