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The Reorienting System of the Human Brain: From Environment to Theory of Mind
Maurizio Corbetta,1,2,3,4* Gaurav Patel,2,3 and Gordon L. Shulman1,4*
1 Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
2 Department of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
3 Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
*Correspondence: Email: mau/at/npg.wustl.edu (M.C.), Email: gordon/at/npg.wustl.edu (G.L.S.)
4These authors have contributed equally to this work.
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Abstract
Survival can depend on the ability to change a current course of action to respond to potentially advantageous or threatening stimuli. This “reorienting” response involves the coordinated action of a right hemisphere dominant ventral frontoparietal network that interrupts and resets ongoing activity and a dorsal frontoparietal network specialized for selecting and linking stimuli and responses. At rest, each network is distinct and internally correlated, but when attention is focused, the ventral network is suppressed to prevent reorienting to distracting events. These different patterns of recruitment may reflect inputs to the ventral attention network from the locus coeruleus/norepinephrine system. While originally conceptualized as a system for redirecting attention from one object to another, recent evidence suggests a more general role in switching between networks, which may explain recent evidence of its involvement in functions such as social cognition.
To safely navigate the environment, survive, and reproduce, animals and people must rapidly select sensory information that is relevant to their goals (e.g., routes, food, mates). They must also quickly redirect their attention and change their course of action when faced with novel, potentially threatening, or rewarding stimuli. The complex set of adjustments in response to novel and unexpected stimuli is defined here as a reorienting response. Reorienting may occur between two environmental stimuli, such as when we orient to the siren of an ambulance while reading a newspaper, or between an internally directed activity and the environment, as when the same siren interrupts a train of thought. While several autonomic and motor responses can be triggered by novel sensory stimuli through subcortical reflexes that are largely automatic and unconscious (the orienting reflex; Sokolov, 1963), more recent work indicates that this adaptive behavior involves a complex interaction between cortical systems specialized for the selection of sensory information. A dorsal frontoparietal (or dorsal attention) network enables the selection of sensory stimuli based on internal goals or expectations (goal-driven attention) and links them to appropriate motor responses. A ventral frontoparietal (or ventral attention) network detects salient and behaviorally relevant stimuli in the environment, especially when unattended (stimulus-driven attention). These systems dynamically interact during normal perception to determine where and what we attend to. In this paper, we review evidence from neuroimaging, neuropsychology, and neurophysiology on the role of these two networks, particularly the ventral network, in the reorienting response.
Psychological theories of attention are often concerned with simple behavioral goals, such as finding an object with particular features (Treisman and Gelade, 1980; Wolfe, 1994) or at a particular location (Eriksen and Hoffman, 1974; Posner, 1980) and responding to it in an appropriate manner (Hommel, 2000). This form of selection is labeled “goal-driven” or “endogenous” to emphasize the internal or top-down signals that guide perception through a dynamic interaction with sensory or bottom-up information. The biased-competition model of attention, for example, proposes that objects in a visual scene compete for access to visual short-term memory and that the competition is biased by top-down signals that promote access of behaviorally relevant objects (Desimone and Duncan, 1995). These top-down signals, characterized as working memory (e.g., Downing, 2000; but see Woodman and Luck, 2007), long-term memory (Moores et al., 2003), or action related (Craighero et al., 2002; Rosenbaum, 1991), interact with sensory (bottom-up) signals produced by objects in the visual scene, enabling the desired object to be selectively perceived and entered into memory at the expense of unimportant objects (Bundesen, 1990; Wolfe, 1994). For instance, Figure 1AFigure 1 shows a student who focuses on his computer desktop while writing his thesis and ignores surrounding objects and people.
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Focusing Attention and Reorienting Attention Recruit Interacting Networks
Adaptive behavior, however, also requires that we respond to objects that are outside the current focus of attention, i.e., that do not match current settings for selecting stimuli and responses. The object we are looking for may appear with different features than we expected or at a different location. More importantly, a new object may appear that requires a completely different course of action. While the student looks at the computer screen, a colleague may ask a question (Figure 1BFigure 1), or while a monkey searches for food, a predator may appear. Moreover, we may be presented with new events requiring a response while we are engaged in “internally directed” activities that do not involve an interaction with the environment. Someone may distract us while we are considering the meaning of a sentence in the thesis we are writing, or a monkey may quickly react to the appearance of a predator while grooming or eating.
Reorienting to new objects may occur reflexively, based on their high sensory salience (Jonides and Yantis, 1988), particularly when we do not have a specific task to do (Pashler and Harris, 2001), but distinctive objects attract attention more effectively when they are also behaviorally relevant (Yantis and Egeth, 1999), either because they match our current goals or because of long-term memory associations that signal their importance, as when we hear the phone ringing or the siren of an ambulance. In fact, the degree to which a distinctive but entirely irrelevant object can attract our attention, so-called exogenous attention, is controversial (Folk et al., 1992; Gibson and Kelsey, 1998; Jonides, 1981; Posner and Cohen, 1984; Theeuwes and Burger, 1998; Yantis and Egeth, 1999). In some cases, shifts of attention to a distinctive stimulus can be part of a task goal (Bacon and Egeth, 1994), as when someone tries to detect any salient object appearing in a visual scene. In other cases, distinctive but irrelevant objects may share a specific feature with our current goal, as when we notice someone wearing a red sweater while looking for a friend with a red hat (Folk et al., 1992; Gibson and Kelsey, 1998).
Several lines of evidence indicate that two cortico-cortical neural systems are involved in attending to environmental stimuli (Corbetta and Shulman, 2002). A dorsal frontoparietal network, whose core regions include dorsal parietal cortex, particularly intraparietal sulcus (IPS) and superior parietal lobule (SPL), and dorsal frontal cortex along the precentral sulcus, near or at the frontal eye field (FEF) (Figure 2AFigure 2, blue areas), embodies the top-down control mechanism proposed by biased competition and related theories (Bundesen, 1990; Desimone and Duncan, 1995; Wolfe, 1994). The dorsal system generates and maintains endogenous signals based on current goals and preexisting information about likely contingencies and sends out top-down signals that bias the processing of appropriate stimulus features and locations in sensory cortex. This conclusion is based on evidence that the dorsal network is preactivated by the expectation of seeing an object at a particular location or with certain features (e.g., movement in a specific direction) (Corbetta et al., 2000; Hopfinger et al., 2000; Kastner et al., 1999; Shulman et al., 1999), by the preparation of a specific response (Astafiev et al., 2003; Connolly et al., 2002), or by the short-term memory of a visual scene (LaBar et al., 1999; Pessoa et al., 2002). The dorsal system is also involved in linking relevant stimuli to responses, as it is modulated when people change their motor plan for an object (Rushworth et al., 2001). Under some conditions, the preparatory activation of the dorsal frontoparietal network extends to visual cortex, presumably reflecting the top-down modulation of sensory representations (Giesbrecht et al., 2006; Hopfinger et al., 2000; Kastner et al., 1999; Serences et al., 2004; Silver et al., 2007; Sylvester et al., 2007) (Figure 1AFigure 1). Accordingly, anticipatory activity may predict performance to subsequent targets (Giesbrecht et al., 2006; Pessoa and Padmala, 2005; Sapir et al., 2005; Sylvester et al., 2007). Finally, recent studies show that electrical or magnetic stimulation of FEF or IPS leads to a retinotopically specific modulation of visual areas and parallel improvement of perception at corresponding locations of the visual field (Moore and Armstrong, 2003; Ruff et al., 2006, 2007).
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Definition of Dorsal and Ventral Networks from Activation Data and Putative Interactions
A second system, the ventral frontoparietal network, is not activated by expectations or task preparation but responds along with the dorsal network when behaviorally relevant objects (or targets) are detected (Corbetta et al., 2000). Both dorsal and ventral networks are also activated during reorienting, with enhanced responses during the detection of targets that appear at unattended locations. For example, enhanced responses are observed when subjects are cued to expect a target at one location but it unexpectedly appears at another (i.e., “invalid” targets in the Posner spatial cueing paradigm) (Arrington et al., 2000; Corbetta et al., 2000; Kincade et al., 2005; Macaluso et al., 2002; Vossel et al., 2006) or when a target appears infrequently, as in “oddball” paradigms (Bledowski et al., 2004; Braver et al., 2001; Linden et al., 1999; Marois et al., 2000; McCarthy et al., 1997; Stevens et al., 2005) (Figure 1BFigure 1). Core regions of the ventral network include temporoparietal junction (TPJ) cortex (anatomically, TPJ is more strictly defined as the cortex at the intersection of the posterior end of the STS, the inferior parietal lobule, and the lateral occipital cortex), defined as the posterior sector of the superior temporal sulcus (STS) and gyrus (STG) and the ventral part of the supramarginal gyrus (SMG) and ventral frontal cortex (VFC), including parts of middle frontal gyrus (MFG), inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), frontal operculum, and anterior insula (Figure 2AFigure 2, orange regions). An early theory of how the two networks interact (Corbetta and Shulman, 2002) proposed that when attention is reoriented to a new source of information (stimulus-driven reorienting), output from the ventral network interrupts (as a “circuit breaker”) ongoing selection in the dorsal network, which in turn shifts attention toward the novel object of interest.
Although both attentional networks have been most extensively investigated in vision, the available evidence indicates a supramodal function (Driver and Spence, 1998; Macaluso et al., 2002). The ventral network (right TPJ, right IFG) registers salient events in the environment not only in the visual but also in the auditory and tactile modalities (Downar et al., 2000), and similar dorsal and ventral parietal and frontal regions are modulated by reorienting to invalid targets (Arrington et al., 2000; Corbetta et al., 2000; Giessing et al., 2006; Kincade et al., 2005; Macaluso et al., 2002; Mayer et al., 2006; Vossel et al., 2006) or by oddballs (Braver et al., 2001; Kiehl et al., 2001; Linden et al., 1999; Marois et al., 2000) in different modalities.
The sections below review in more detail recent work on these networks, particularly the ventral network, including: (1) the functional-anatomical independence of each network, (2) the importance of behavioral relevance rather than sensory salience in driving the ventral network, (3) whether the output of the ventral network initiates a reorienting response and how the dorsal and ventral networks interact, (4) how the functions of the ventral network may generalize beyond perception and action to include memory and social cognition, and finally (5) the emerging link between activity in the ventral network and the output of the locus coeruleus-norepinephrine system (LC-NE), as recently outlined by neurocomputational theories (Aston-Jones and Cohen, 2005; Bouret and Sara, 2005; Dayan and Yu, 2006; Yu and Dayan, 2005).
We do not consider in this discussion the relationship between cortical and subcortical regions involved in the control of attention. There is strong evidence that subcortical structures like the superior colliculus are involved in stimulus-driven but also goal-driven attention (Bell et al., 2004; Fecteau et al., 2004; Rafal et al., 1988; Sapir et al., 1999). The pulvinar nucleus of the thalamus has been proposed as a gateway structure that funnels top-down biases from parietal areas into visual cortex (Petersen et al., 1987; Shipp, 2004).
A basic question is the degree to which different regions in each putative system cohere as a functional-anatomical network. The hypothesis of two attention networks, originally based on the patterns of activation under different task conditions (Corbetta and Shulman, 2002), has been strongly supported by studies of interareal correlation of low-frequency (<0.1 Hz) fluctuations of the spontaneous (not task-evoked) BOLD signal over time, called functional connectivity by MRI (fcMRI) (Biswal et al., 1995). Several groups have reported a number of fcMRI networks (e.g., visual, auditory, somatomotor, default, attention) (Biswal et al., 1995; Fox et al., 2005b, 2006a; Fransson, 2005; Greicius et al., 2003; Mantini et al., 2007), which are related to the underlying anatomical connectivity (Vincent et al., 2007) and replay at rest the patterns of functional activation evoked by behavioral tasks (Fox et al., 2005b, 2006a; Greicius et al., 2003; Hampson et al., 2002; Vincent et al., 2007). In other words, brain regions that are commonly recruited during a task are anatomically connected and maintain in the resting state (in the absence of any stimulation) a significant degree of temporal coherence in their spontaneous activity. Furthermore, there is growing evidence that the integrity and strength of spontaneous functional connectivity are behaviorally significant (Hampson et al., 2006; Seeley et al., 2007; He et al., 2007b). For instance, breakdown of interhemispheric functional connectivity in posterior parietal cortex correlates in a group of patients with post-stroke neglect with their visuospatial deficits (He et al., 2007a; see below).
Regions that putatively belong to the dorsal and ventral attention systems, based on their consistent activation in the Posner cueing paradigm to spatial cues and unattended targets, respectively, also show significant interregional correlation at rest (Fox et al., 2006b) or during an active task with the mean task signal removed (He et al., 2007a) (see Figure 3Figure 3). There is a remarkable similarity between the dorsal parietal and frontal regions identified by a meta-analysis of task-evoked activation studies (Figure 2Figure 2) and those showing high resting-state correlations (Figure 3Figure 3). Similar results are found for ventral frontoparietal regions coactivated during stimulus-driven orienting (Fox et al., 2006a; He et al., 2007a). Moreover, the right hemispheric bias observed in the ventral attention network in several activation studies (Arrington et al., 2000; Corbetta et al., 2000; Downar et al., 2000) is mirrored in fcMRI (Fox et al., 2006a; He et al., 2007a) (compare ventral network in Figures 2Figure 2 and and33Figure 3).
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Functional Connectivity Defines Separate Dorsal and Ventral Networks
While segregation between dorsal and ventral attention networks is nearly complete, spontaneous activity in right posterior MFG correlates with both networks (Figure 3Figure 3), indicating that right MFG may contain intermixed neuronal populations respectively connected with dorsal or ventral regions (Fox et al., 2006a). This result raises the possibility that ventral and dorsal networks do not directly interact but are principally linked through prefrontal cortex (Fox et al., 2006a). This link is also supported by results obtained in neglect subjects showing that the functional disconnection of MFG with dorsal parietal cortex is responsible for abnormal stimulus selection (see below and He et al., 2007a) (wire diagram, Figure 2BFigure 2). The functional segregation of the two networks in the absence of a task may allow their flexible recruitment during active behavior. For example, while dorsal regions are active following the presentation of an instructive cue, ventral regions are not recruited or are even suppressed (Shulman et al., 2003; Todd et al., 2005). However, following the presentation of a target, both ventral and dorsal regions respond briskly (Corbetta et al., 2000; Hampshire et al., 2007; Shulman et al., 1999, 2003). In summary, the correspondence between activation and connectivity analyses provides strong evidence for separate dorsal and ventral attention networks forming distinct functional systems.
While reorienting to an object can be driven by salience and behavioral relevance, relevance is the critical factor that determines whether an object activates the ventral network (Downar et al., 2001). The ventral network might be considered a prime candidate for mediating orienting to salient but unimportant stimuli, i.e., exogenous attention (Posner and Cohen, 1984), because under passive conditions it is highly responsive to distinctive sensory events in all modalities (Downar et al., 2000). But this hypothesis has now been tested and rejected (Kincade et al., 2005). Kincade and colleagues separated the BOLD activity produced by an uninformative but salient peripheral cue, a red square in an array of green squares, from the activity produced by discriminating a subsequent rotated T or L (Figure 4AFigure 4). In control conditions, subjects were presented with a neutral display of randomly intermixed color squares or a foveal cue that oriented attention voluntarily. Exogenous cues (the red square) did not activate the ventral network (Figure 4AFigure 4), even though performance was better at that location, indicating that these cues were effective in generating a shift of attention. In contrast, the dorsal network (IPS/SPL and FEF) showed stronger activation for exogenous than neutral cues (Figure 4AFigure 4), although the strongest recruitment was recorded for endogenous cues (data not shown). Many other studies have measured activations in exogenous orienting paradigms that have combined activations during the cue and target periods (Kim et al., 1999; Lepsien and Pollmann, 2002; Mayer et al., 2006; Peelen et al., 2004; Rosen et al., 1999). Although these studies are more difficult to interpret, they indicate that the ventral network is not recruited by orienting to uninformative but salient cues presented before a target appears (see Peelen et al., 2004, for an exception). Similarly, de Fockert and colleagues showed that uninformative but salient distracters that attract attention did not activate the ventral system (de Fockert et al., 2004) (Figure 4BFigure 4), although they did activate the dorsal system. The overall conclusion is that exogenous orienting recruits the same dorsal frontoparietal network that is responsible for directing attention based on goals or expectations.
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Ventral Network Activity Is Restricted to Task-Relevant Stimuli
Conversely, the ventral network is well activated by stimuli that are important, even if they are not very distinctive. Indovina and Macaluso (2007), for example, showed that unattended targets of low salience activated regions in both dorsal (FEF, precuneus) and ventral (IFG and anterior insula) attention networks, in line with previous results (Arrington et al., 2000; Corbetta et al., 2000; Macaluso et al., 2002), to a much greater degree than highly salient but irrelevant distracters (see Figure 4CFigure 4). Finally, the ventral network is activated by irrelevant objects when they are similar to a target object. Serences et al. (2005) asked subjects to categorize red foveal letters interspersed among a rapid, successive series of colored foveal letters (rapid serial visual presentation, or RSVP) while peripheral distracter letters were occasionally presented in the target color (red) or in a nontarget color (green) (Figure 4DFigure 4). This situation is analogous to when we look in a crowd for a friend wearing a red sweater and notice people wearing red but not green clothes (“contingent” orienting; Folk et al., 1992). TPJ activation was only observed for the red distracters (Figure 4DFigure 4), consistent with the hypothesis that the ventral network responds mainly to stimuli thought to be behaviorally relevant (see also Downar et al., 2001).
In summary, the ventral network is not activated by orienting to distinctive but unimportant stimuli (exogenous orienting), except perhaps in the special case where subjects do not have an ongoing task, but does underlie reorienting to environmental stimuli based on their task relevance. An important conclusion from these neuroimaging studies is that the psychological distinction between exogenous and endogenous orienting (Jonides, 1981) may not map onto different neural systems. Rather, a more fundamental distinction appears to be between systems involved in orienting, both exogenous and goal-driven, i.e., the dorsal attention system, and those involved in stimulus-driven reorienting, i.e., the ventral and dorsal attention systems.
The poor response of the ventral network to distinctive but unimportant objects when a person focuses on a task prevents shifts of attention that could interfere with task performance. Two studies have now shown that this poor response may be due to suppression of the ventral network by a sustained top-down signal.
In one study, subjects saw a rapid stream of letters (RSVP) and were instructed to look for an occasional digit (Figure 5AFigure 5) (Shulman et al., 2003). Prior to the point at which the digit was detected, while subjects were still searching the letter displays, the ventral network (bilateral TPJ, R MFG, and R IFG) showed a sustained deactivation (Figure 5CFigure 5, green-blue voxels). These deactivated regions overlapped regions that showed increased positive responses to unattended targets in a separate experiment, indicating that the deactivation occurred within ventral regions involved in stimulus-driven reorienting. Shulman and colleagues (Shulman et al., 2003) suggested that the suppression of activity prevented an inappropriate response to irrelevant stimuli. Because targets still triggered a robust positive response, however, activity in the ventral network appeared to have been gated by task relevance or filtered, with only targets passing the filter. Stronger filtering appeared to correlate with better performance, because the average deactivation in right TPJ was significantly larger on trials in which the subsequent target was detected than missed (Shulman et al., 2007) (Figure 5AFigure 5).
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TPJ Activity Is Suppressed during Focused Attention
In a second study (Todd et al., 2005), subjects remembered a set of objects in a visual display, and following a blank retention interval, decided whether any of the objects were present in a new display (Figure 5BFigure 5). The larger the number of objects the subject had to remember (the memory load), the more R TPJ was deactivated during the retention interval. The authors separately showed that higher memory loads resulted in poorer detection of a novel unattended stimulus, suggesting that high memory loads suppress activity in R TPJ and prevent stimulus-driven reorienting (Todd et al., 2005). Together, these studies indicate that when subjects focus on a task, signals for task relevance (“filtering” in Figure 2BFigure 2) deactivate TPJ, preventing reorienting to unimportant objects.
The source of signals for task relevance may be the dorsal network (IPS, FEF), which shows strong anticipatory activity when people expect to see an object at a particular location or with particular features (Corbetta et al., 2000; Kastner et al., 1999). In the previous RSVP experiment, IPS and FEF were each one of the few regions in the brain that showed sustained activation to distracters prior to target detection (Shulman et al., 2003) (Figures 5A and 5CFigure 5). These sustained signals may have filtered the input to the ventral network (blue arrows in Figure 5CFigure 5; filtering signal in Figure 2BFigure 2).
Another possible source of top-down signals is prefrontal cortex (Desimone and Duncan, 1995; Miller and Cohen, 2001). Resting-state analyses suggest that R MFG may link dorsal and ventral networks (Fox et al., 2006a), possibly funneling top-down biases from the dorsal network onto the ventral network (Figure 5CFigure 5 and and2B).2BFigure 2). R MFG is probably not the source because it showed sustained deactivation along with R TPJ and R IFG (Figure 5CFigure 5). However, sustained increases were observed in anterior cingulate and anterior insula (Shulman et al., 2003), which have been postulated to form the core of a network for cognitive control (Dosenbach et al., 2006) (orange arrows in Figure 5CFigure 5). The influence from these cortical regions may be direct through cortico-cortical interactions or indirectly via subcortical loops. In the last section, we relate the pattern of activity in TPJ, including filtering signals, to the output of the LC-NE, which receives input from the anterior cingulate and the anterior insula (Aston-Jones and Cohen, 2005; Ongur et al., 2003).
If prefrontal cortex is the source or the conduit of these modulations onto TPJ, then poor top-down control of stimulus-driven reorienting should be evident after prefrontal lesions. Chao and Knight (1995) reported that patients with unilateral dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) lesions showed markedly decreased performance in an auditory match-to-sample task due to irrelevant distracter tones presented during the retention interval. Loss of prefrontal inputs may have decreased top-down control over TPJ, resulting in inappropriate reorienting to distracting stimuli (see also Ro et al., 1998; Snow and Mattingley, 2006).
In summary, only environmental stimuli that are behaviorally relevant trigger the ventral network. The ventral network response is suppressed when irrelevant stimuli are presented, even if they are distinctive, reflecting a “filtering” signal that gates sensory responses by behavioral relevance. The source of the filtering signal may be the dorsal network or other parts of prefrontal cortex, either directly or indirectly via subcortical loops.
Above, we discussed the inputs to the ventral system that ensure it is mainly activated by behaviorally important stimuli. Next, we consider how the output from this system affects activity in other neural systems and behavior. One possibility is that, when an important stimulus appears outside the current focus of attention, fast-latency signals from the ventral network initiate reorienting by sending a “circuit-breaking” or interrupt signal to dorsal regions, which change the locus of attention (Corbetta and Shulman, 2002).
The dorsal network contains the neural machinery for directing attention and the eyes to sensory stimuli appearing at unexpected locations, with spatially selective responses to contralateral stimuli and responses to movements of attention or the eyes (Beauchamp et al., 2001; Corbetta et al., 1998, 1993; Nobre et al., 1997; Schluppeck et al., 2005; Sereno et al., 2001; Sweeney et al., 1996; Sylvester et al., 2007). In contrast, group-averaged studies of ventral regions (TPJ, VFC) have not found spatially selective responses during reorienting (Corbetta et al., 2002; Macaluso et al., 2002; Macaluso and Patria, 2007). Similarly, mapping studies in individuals have only reported weak spatially selective responses near or within the ventral network in parts of MFG (Hagler and Sereno, 2006; Jack et al., 2007) and superior temporal gyrus (STG) (Jack et al., 2007). The weak evidence for spatial selectivity in the ventral network suggests that spatial reorienting is not mediated solely by that network but involves joint activation of dorsal and ventral regions.
There is little evidence, however, that short-latency responses in the ventral attention network precede those in dorsal areas and trigger a reorienting response. Within dorsal parietal and frontal sites, EEG- or MEG-based estimates of visual response latency to targets for an eye movement vary between 130 and 170 ms (Evdokimidis et al., 2001; McDowell et al., 2005; Sestieri et al., 2008). Within ventral sites in TPJ and IFG, the response to targets is thought to be indexed by the P300 potential, with a latency of 300–400 ms, considerably longer than the dorsal latencies (Bledowski et al., 2004; Daffner et al., 2003; Knight et al., 1989; Menon et al., 1997; Yamaguchi and Knight, 1991a). Unfortunately, P300 and eye movement paradigms are difficult to compare. There have been a number of ERP/MEG studies of spatial reorienting, but the results are ambiguous in relation to the relative latency of dorsal and ventral parietal regions (Luck et al., 1994; Mangun and Hillyard, 1991). Invalid targets that follow a voluntary cue to shift attention increase a late-positive deflection (230–400 ms) at central, parietal, and occipital sites that might correspond to P300 (Mangun and Hillyard, 1991). At temporal electrodes ipsilateral to the target (Hopfinger and Ries, 2005), invalid targets that follow an uninformative (exogenous) cue produce a negative-going deflection in the range of 200–250 ms, preceding a separate P300. Although this latter paradigm involved noninformative cues, the ERP component was sensitive to several task-contingent factors, reflecting top-down signals (Hopfinger and Ries, 2005).
Overall, the latency of visual responses to salient behaviorally relevant visual stimuli is, if anything, shorter in dorsal parietal than in ventral parietal areas, but definitive studies have not been conducted. In awake behaving monkeys, neural responses to visual stimuli in lateral intraparietal area (LIP), the putative homolog of human IPS/SPL, show a very rapid nonselective volley (~50 ms) followed by slower oscillations (100–200 ms) that are modulated by spatial attention (Bisley et al., 2004). In more ventral parietal cortex, in correspondence with area 7A, which shows modulation by unattended stimuli (Constantinidis and Steinmetz, 2001; Robinson et al., 1995) and salient oddball stimuli during simple fixation (Constantinidis and Steinmetz, 2005), similar to the ventral attention network, average response are about 100 ms (typical range 70–200 ms; Constandidinis personal communication). No direct comparison on the same task has been carried out, however. Reorienting of attention to a behaviorally relevant and salient stimulus outside of the current focus is probably initiated in dorsal frontoparietal cortex in conjunction with subcortical structures (e.g., superior colliculus). Ventral system activity during reorienting may reflect slower adjustments necessary to complete or carry out a complex reorienting response that involves shifts in task sets, expectations, reward contingencies, and arousal.
While the latency data from electrophysiological studies are ambiguous on whether ventral network activity triggers dorsal activity during reorienting, transcranial magnetic stimulation studies (TMS) nonetheless support a key role for ventral regions in reorienting attention and detecting targets in conjunction with dorsal frontoparietal regions (IPS, FEF). An extensive discussion of TMS studies of visuospatial attention is beyond the scope of this review, but some conclusions can be drawn from the extant literature. First, interference with regions in inferior parietal cortex (TPJ, SMG, AG) disrupts visual target detection and reorienting (Chambers et al., 2004a; Ellison et al., 2004; Meister et al., 2006). Second, disruption has been demonstrated for stimulation latencies ranging from 90–120 ms (Chambers et al., 2004a) to 200–300 ms following target onset (Chambers et al., 2004a; Ellison et al., 2004; Meister et al., 2006). Early interference effects may reflect disruption of a signal that disengages attention from its current location and initiates reorienting (Chambers et al., 2004a). Third, the regions in inferior parietal cortex that show effects of TMS depend on the task: R TPJ during detection of bilateral stimuli (Meister et al., 2006), angular but not supra-marginal gyrus (SMG) during reorienting in an exogenous cueing paradigm (Chambers et al., 2004a), SMG during reorienting in an endogenous cueing paradigm (Chambers et al., 2004b), and STG during visual search (Ellison et al., 2004). Fourth, a larger set of studies has reported effects of TMS in FEF or posterior parietal cortex (PPC) on detection, search, and orienting (Fuggetta et al., 2006; Grosbras and Paus, 2002; Muggleton et al., 2003; O’Shea et al., 2004; Taylor et al., 2007; Thut et al., 2005). Overall, in agreement with the imaging evidence showing that dorsal and ventral networks are coactivated during target detection and stimulus-driven reorienting (Corbetta et al., 2002; Giessing et al., 2006; Kincade et al., 2005; Marois et al., 2000), TMS of both ventral and dorsal regions affects reorienting, detection, and search.
We have reported direct evidence for an interaction between the two networks in fMRI studies of stroke patients with spatial neglect. Spatial neglect is a syndrome characterized by a bias to attend and respond to objects on the contralesional side and is observed more frequently after right than left hemisphere strokes (Heilman et al., 1987b; Mesulam, 1999). Lesions that cause neglect are typically localized in ventral frontal or temporoparietal cortex and underlying white matter (Husain and Kennard, 1996; Karnath et al., 2004; Mort et al., 2003; Vallar and Perani, 1987). We recently demonstrated that the spatial bias of neglect depends on a physiological imbalance between left and right dorsal parietal cortex (IPS/SPL), which is caused by structural and physiological abnormalities in the ventral attention network (Corbetta et al., 2005; He et al., 2007a). The inter-hemispheric imbalance in IPS/SPL is evident both during spatial attention tasks, with a significant relationship between left-side neglect and hyperactivation of left parietal cortex, and in measures of functional connectivity at rest. For instance, Figure 6AFigure 6 shows BOLD time series collected from a stroke patient who suffered extensive damage to inferior frontal, perisylvian, and TPJ cortex and showed severe left-side neglect at the acute stage. The time series clearly show abnormal correlation of the resting BOLD signal between left and right IPS, which is not structurally damaged. This deficit correlates across subjects with the severity of neglect and recovers over 9 months as neglect improves (He et al., 2007a). Interestingly, the degree of functional impairment in dorsal parietal cortex correlates with the degree of impaired functional connectivity in the structurally damaged ventral network, hence demonstrating the interaction between the two networks. Notably, this interaction involved right MFG and the white matter fibers connecting this region to dorsal parietal cortex (He et al., 2007a), providing more support for the hypothesis that right MFG links ventral and dorsal systems (Figure 2BFigure 2).
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Interaction of Dorsal and Ventral Attention Networks
Finally, a recent paper used a Granger Causality analysis to show an influence of ventral activity on dorsal activity when healthy subjects passively listened to a movement from a symphony (Sridharan et al., 2007) (Figure 6BFigure 6), consistent with an interaction between the networks. Completion of the movement activated both networks, but the ventral activation preceded the dorsal activation (Sridharan et al., 2007). The authors suggested that the ventral network activity marked an event boundary and influenced dorsal activity during a subsequent updating of working memory.
In summary, TMS, neuroimaging, and lesion evidence support the hypothesis that ventral and dorsal networks are both necessary and interact when attention is reoriented to behaviorally relevant environmental stimuli.
Although many of the studies that have been discussed involved spatial reorienting to environmental stimuli, we emphasized in the introduction that the ventral network mediates a broader set of changes in response to an environmental stimulus. Unfortunately, these broader changes involve many processes that can be difficult to isolate. For example, an early indication that the ventral network was recruited under circumstances other than spatial reorienting came from studies using the oddball paradigm, in which subjects detect a target presented infrequently (10%–20%, “oddball”) in a stream of frequent “standard” objects. Enhanced responses to oddballs are observed in a set of regions that includes most consistently the temporoparietal junction and the lateral prefrontal cortex but also dorsal regions in parietal and frontal cortex involved in shifting attention. Because the oddball is usually defined by a different feature(s) than the standard, rather than by a different location (see Marois et al., 2000, for a comparison of the two cases), the enhancement to the oddball is not related to a spatial shift of attention.
But the oddball paradigm combines a range of processes, making the fMRI activations difficult to interpret. For example, a spatial or feature cue in a typical visual attention task may indicate what object should be attended (e.g., “attend to the red letter”) (Broadbent, 1971; Bundesen, 1990) but not how the object should be categorized or responded to (e.g., “if the letter is a vowel, press the left key”), restricting the relevant processes to those involved in stimulus selection (Logan and Gordon, 2001). In the oddball paradigm, however, the oddball/standard distinction indicates what response should be made, adding processes involved in categorizing the oddball, selecting a response (whether overt or covert, go or no-go) based on the current stimulus-response mapping, making the response, and generating signals related to performance monitoring.
Several other studies suggest that the ventral network marks transitions when one behavior is interrupted or terminated and a new behavior begins, including transitions at event boundaries (for a general discussion of event boundaries, see Zacks et al., 2007). A similar phenomenon appears to occur during the transition between a period of rest and a task block involving many trials (task onset) or the transition from the task block to rest (task offset). Both block onsets and offsets robustly and transiently activate R TPJ and VFC, but also other regions, including dorsal prefrontal cortex and the dorsal attention network (Dosenbach et al., 2006; Fox et al., 2005a; Konishi et al., 2001) (Figure 7AFigure 7). Even within a single trial, coactivation of dorsal and ventral frontoparietal areas at task offset may index a readjustment or interruption of ongoing task sets (Shulman et al., 2002). Interestingly, in this latter study, the transient signal at task transition occurred both in dorsal frontoparietal areas that were engaged prior to the transition, but only at the transition point in the ventral network. One interpretation is that the ventral network signals the task transition and/or provides a reset signal. As discussed below, it is possible that these cortical reset signals are related to similar signals identified in the LC-NE system, which putatively allows for a shift of cortical architecture at task boundaries (Bouret and Sara, 2005).
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Common Activation of TPJ during Reorienting, Task Transitions, and Social Cognition
Overall, the above studies suggest that, whenever environmental stimuli call for a change in a maintained task, ventral (and dorsal) attention networks are modulated at the transition point. Interestingly, the ventral network is not recruited when people regularly switch from one task to another over short time periods (e.g., task-switching paradigms). This form of task control appears to involve a separate set of dorsal parietal and frontal regions (Brass and von Cramon, 2004; Braver et al., 2003; Kimberg et al., 2000; Rushworth et al., 2002).
Stimulus-driven reorienting has mainly been discussed in the context of changing the control of behavior from one environmental input to another, but similar reorienting mechanisms may also be involved in shifting from a broad range of “internally directed” processes in order to deal with environmental events, as when interrupting memory retrieval (“did I lock the car door?”) to respond to a sudden stimulus (“is that my cell phone ringing?”). We hypothesize that the ventral attention network may play a central role in this function.
Important aspects of internally directed processing, such as introspection, self-referential thoughts, or projecting oneself into a situation (e.g., envisioning or planning one’s future or remembering one’s past as in episodic memory) are thought to involve the so-called “default” network (Raichle et al., 2001). This network of cortical regions is strongly deactivated during a wide range of demanding cognitive tasks relative to a passive resting or viewing state (Binder et al., 1999; Mazoyer et al., 2001; Shulman et al., 1997). It has been proposed that these regions mediate a number of “default” processes to which the brain returns in the absence of a task (Raichle et al., 2001). A similar set of regions show high temporal correlation in resting-state fcMRI (Fox et al., 2005b; Greicius et al., 2003).
Some authors have proposed that default and dorsal attention networks represent two fundamental axes of functional organization in the brain, with the dorsal attention network controlling environmentally directed processes (e.g., perception and action) and the default network controlling internally directed processes (e.g., memory, introspection) (Fox et al., 2005b; Golland et al., 2007). This hypothesis is based on the observation that goal-directed tasks activate the dorsal attention network and deactivate the default network. Moreover, several fcMRI studies have reported that default activity is negatively correlated with the dorsal network (see top panel of Figure 3Figure 3; (Fox et al., 2006a; Fransson, 2005; but see Golland et al., 2007; Nir et al., 2006). Finally, during natural vision, the posterior part of the brain is entirely occupied either by regions that are positively correlated with the dorsal attention network or the default network (Golland et al., 2007; Nir et al., 2006).
The hypothesis that the ventral network may function as a system to switch (reorient) between internally and externally directed activities is based on two sets of observations. First, the ventral network is largely segregated in terms of functional connectivity from both dorsal attention and default networks (see Figure 3Figure 3; Fox et al., 2006a). The independence in the resting state of the ventral network from both dorsal and default networks may allow a flexible interaction during externally or internally directed behavior. Second, although both ventral attention and default systems may deactivate during goal-oriented behavior, the deactivations depend on different factors. During a perceptual task, in which subjects monitored an RSVP stream for a single target (Shulman et al., 2003), the TPJ component of the ventral network was deactivated only while subjects searched the stream for the target (Figure 5AFigure 5), but the angular gyrus component of the default network was deactivated as long as the RSVP stream remained on the screen. In other words, TPJ was deactivated by the attentional component, while the angular gyrus was deactivated by the sensory component of the task. Moreover, the presentation of the attended target activated TPJ but not angular gyrus (see Golland et al., 2007, for a different dissociation between anterior and posterior portions of IPL). In contrast, when subjects searched their episodic memory for an item (an internally directed task), both sets of regions were still deactivated, but only the angular gyrus was then activated by a positive match in memory (Shannon and Buckner, 2004; Wheeler and Buckner, 2004). The similarity of response profile when looking for a target in the environment or in memory raises the possibility that the ventral attention network plays a similar role in both processes. In both cases, filtering of the ventral attention network is necessary to protect the system from involuntarily reorienting to environmental stimuli when resources are allocated to perceptual, memory, or self-referential processing.
An intriguing development of the last few years is that activation of right TPJ, the posterior core of the ventral attention network, has been reported during “theory of mind” (ToM) cognition, i.e., reasoning about other people’s mental states (Fletcher et al., 1995; Gallagher and Frith, 2003). ToM cognition involves a close interaction between perceptual processes and those involved in self-projection (Buckner and Carroll, 2007). Subjects may judge the intentions of a person they are viewing in a movie or judge a person’s intentions based on a written description.
A recent study reported that ToM activations, measured by comparing responses to false-belief stories and control stories involving outdated photographs, colocalized with activations from reorienting to invalid targets in a Posner cueing task (Mitchell, 2007) (Figure 7CFigure 7). Figure 7BFigure 7 shows the close correspondence between activations during attentional reorienting and social cognition in R TPJ from a recent meta-analysis (Decety and Lamm, 2007), although there was a tendency for the social cognition activations to extend slightly more posteriorly, perhaps into the default system proper.
Colocalization of activations from ToM and reorienting paradigms does not necessarily imply a common process. First, the colocalization, while impressive, is only approximate. In addition to the fact that fMRI activity averages over large cell populations, there may be a slightly more posterior distribution for ToM activations. To our knowledge, the VFC component of the ventral attention network has not been reported in studies of social cognition. Instead, social cognition paradigms often activate, in addition to TPJ, foci in posterior cingulate and medial prefrontal cortex that belong to the default network, which we argued above is distinct from the ventral attention network. Perhaps a slightly more posterior location for the TPJ focus in some ToM paradigms reflects connectivity with these default regions. Second, colocalization may mask subtle but systematic differences in the voxelwise distributions of the activations (Downing et al., 2007). Demonstrating that two voxelwise patterns or distributions are not identical, however, begs the question of why both patterns occur in the same cortical tissue. Although in principle the two distributions could reflect completely unrelated functions that are juxtaposed, i.e., a specialized ToM module (Saxe and Powell, 2006) and a node within a reorienting network (Corbetta and Shulman, 2002), the close anatomical correspondence may suggest a less arbitrary relationship.
If activations from reorienting and ToM are not completely unrelated, why might they be linked? First, colocalization might reflect factors that are poorly controlled in either or both paradigms. For example, ToM paradigms generally involve blocks or trials in which subjects comprehend animations, movie sequences, or stories over an extended period. The cognitive or working memory loads of the experimental and control stories in these ToM paradigms have not been explicitly controlled. In several studies, the selective activation of right TPJ during ToM conditions as compared to control conditions actually reflected a lesser deactivation (e.g., Figure 7CFigure 7 from Mitchell, 2007). Because greater memory loads produce stronger TPJ deactivations (Todd et al., 2005), differential TPJ activity in experimental and control conditions of ToM paradigms could reflect overall differences in memory load or task complexity. The consistency of R TPJ activations in ToM and reorienting experiments across very different paradigms, however, suggests that any single methodological factor may not explain the colocalization.
Second, colocalization might reflect cognitive processes that are present in both paradigms. For example, both reorienting and ToM paradigms often involve breaches of expectation (e.g., invalid cues [Arrington et al., 2000; Corbetta et al., 2000; Macaluso et al., 2002] or false-belief stories [Gallagher and Frith, 2003; Vogeley et al., 2001]), which appear to modulate the ventral network. Decety and Lamm (2007) suggest that many aspects of social cognition involve a comparison of “internal predictions with actual external events,” explaining the ubiquitous presence of R TPJ activity. However, some ToM studies have included controls for this factor (Saxe et al., 2004), and some ToM and reorienting studies have not involved manipulations of expectation (Saxe and Powell, 2006; Serences et al., 2005).
Another possibility along these lines is that TPJ activity during ToM tasks reflects signals linked to shifts in eye gaze or for perception or imagery of gaze. Several studies have shown that posterior STS is activated during the perception of gaze shifts (Allison et al., 2000; Pelphrey et al., 2003, 2004). Within a social context, activation from viewing-gaze shifts are larger when they occur toward the viewer (mutual gaze) than when they occur away from the viewer (averted gaze) (Figure 7DFigure 7). This error signal may reflect a mismatch between our expectation and the observed direction of another person’s gaze (similar to an invalidly cued target) or an error signal in the inferred state of mind of the other person (a ToM signal). In general, strong evolutionary reasons link mechanisms for shifting attention to the development of social mechanisms for conspecific interactions in old and new world monkeys to mechanisms to infer others’ intention or ToM in higher apes and humans (Tomasello et al., 2001). Gaze-related activations in STS, however, may not colocalize with those for reorienting or ToM (these functions have not been assessed within the same experiment) (see Gobbini et al., 2007, for a recent meta-analysis).
Finally, in ToM experiments, subjects continually shift between a simulation or judgment of the other person’s mind or viewpoint and processing of perceptual evidence from their own viewpoint that supports the simulation or judgment. Interestingly, recent evidence indicates that disruption of TPJ activity either by seizure activity or electrical stimulation can engender a number of hallucinatory misperceptions that involve a mismatch between the perception of the surrounding environment and one’s own body. For example, subjects may feel as if they see their body from the outside or as if the perception of their own body is not aligned with the body’s visual representation and surrounding environment (reviewed in Blanke and Arzy, 2005). These changes in body self-perception can be manipulated experimentally (Lenggenhager et al., 2007) and produce right TPJ activity (Arzy et al., 2006). These findings have been interpreted by considering TPJ cortex a site of multimodal integration of visuospatial, vestibular, and body-related signals and that the alignment of these signals generates and maintains one’s own sense of body or bodily self (Blanke and Arzy, 2005). While the relationship between reorienting signals in the ventral attention network and sense of body remains to be explored, an intriguing hypothesis is that similar environmental and bodily representations and their comparison may be co-opted for ToM interactions and that attention signals in TPJ may be important to switch between internal, bodily, or self-perspective and external, environmental, or other’s viewpoint, a key ingredient of ToM.
Many of the conditions that activate the ventral network involve violating an expectation. For example, because people prepare for expected objects, an unexpected target object is often an unattended object, evoking “stimulus-driven reorienting.” Similarly, event boundaries, which appear to activate the ventral network, may be determined by monitoring whether the sensory input departs from a current model of ongoing behavior (Zacks et al., 2007). Discrepancies or breaches of expectation indicate that a new behavior has occurred, marking an event boundary and requiring the model to be updated. But activations to unexpected stimuli may also reflect processes that are either entirely separate from reorienting or modulate reorienting. Important objects that violate an expectation may also increase arousal, dishabituate neuronal responses in sensory and associative areas in paradigms in which expectations are driven by stimulus frequency (e.g., oddball paradigms), or produce error signals that drive learning, reward, or affective mechanisms. While, in some cases, violations of expectation may be an essential feature of the process that drives ventral network activation, it will also be important in future work to explicitly manipulate stimulus-driven reorienting independently from expectation.
Several neuromodulators have been linked to the detection of unexpected events, including dopamine and norepinephrine (NE) (Dayan and Yu, 2006). Although dopaminergic responses to unexpected stimuli are often discussed in the context of reward (Schultz, 1998; Schultz et al., 1997) some authors have proposed that they more generally facilitate a shift of attention to unexpected and behaviorally important stimuli (Horvitz, 2000; Redgrave et al., 1999; Zink et al., 2003). This putative function is very similar to that proposed for the ventral attention network, but there is no evidence of a significant dopaminergic projection to TPJ. In contrast, there is evidence in monkey for a strong noradrenergic innervation of inferior parietal cortex and superior temporal gyrus, possible homologs of human TPJ (Foote and Morrison, 1987; Morrison and Foote, 1986). Therefore, we next consider the functional relationship between the ventral attention network and activity in the locus coeruleus (LC), the primary source of NE.
The LC-NE system is a monoaminergic neuromodulatory system that originates from a small nucleus in the dorsal pons, the locus coeruleus, projecting diffusely to the brainstem, cerebellum, diencephalon, and neocortex. Several neurocomputational theories of the LC-NE system activity (Aston-Jones and Cohen, 2005; Bouret and Sara, 2005; Dayan and Yu, 2006; Yu and Dayan, 2005) bear striking resemblance to some of the ideas put forward in this review regarding the role of the ventral attention network.
LC neurons exhibit both tonic and phasic activity modes. Tonic activity is low in an unaroused state that facilitates sleep and disengagement from the environment (Aston-Jones and Bloom, 1981; Rajkowski et al., 1994), moderate when the organism is engaged in a focused task of high utility and filters out irrelevant stimuli (Usher et al., 1999), and high when the organism is not committed to a task, is exploring the environment, and there is uncertainty concerning the proper relationship between stimuli and responses (Aston-Jones et al., 1997) (i.e., unexpected uncertainty). Although these transitions in tonic firing of LC neurons occur over seconds or minutes, decrements of tonic LC activity have been observed on a shorter timescale in the period between a warning cue instructing the onset of a trial and a rewarded target stimulus (Bouret and Sara, 2005). Aston-Jones and Cohen have proposed that LC-NE tonic signals enable transitions between behavioral states (sleep, focused alert, exploratory) and that the decrement of tonic activity from an exploratory state to a specific task state reflects the higher utility associated with the detection of upcoming target stimuli. Accordingly, transitions between different tonic levels are enabled by cortical inputs from prefrontal regions (anterior cingulate, orbitofrontal cortex) that heavily project to LC and are sensitive to task context and reward information.
The second component of LC discharge is the phasic response observed to target stimuli, which is most strongly generated in the moderate tonic task-focused mode. Interestingly, phasic responses of LC neurons share many similarities with the P300 target-related cortical evoked potential, which was previously discussed in relation to the timing of the response in the ventral attention network (Aston-Jones and Cohen, 2005; Nieuwenhuis et al., 2005). Two different yet related theories have been proposed to explain the putative function of the LC phasic response to targets. According to Aston-Jones and Cohen, the phasic response enhances the gain of neural responses in the complex neural matrix involving sensory, decision, and motor regions and therefore speeds up behavioral responses. Importantly, the LC phasic response is thought to be triggered by pre-frontal inputs only after the sensory evidence for a target has exceeded a decision threshold in the relevant cortical network, i.e., it is a relatively late postdecision signal that restricts LC activity to target stimuli (Clayton et al., 2004; Rajkowski et al., 2004), consistent with the relatively late P300 response to target detection. Alternatively, the phasic signal has been conceptualized as an “interrupt” signal (Dayan and Yu, 2006) or as a “network reset” signal (Bouret and Sara, 2005) that allows the flexible configuration of a target network once a target is detected. Bouret and Sara note that this interpretation is consistent with the role that norepinephrine plays in much simpler organisms. For instance, in the stomatogastric nervous system of crustacea, synchronized activity from a small number of neuromodulatory cells can construct ex novo a functional network from neurons otherwise belonging to a different functional network (Marder and Thirumalai, 2002; Meyrand et al., 1994; Simmers et al., 1995). The phylogenetic stability of norepinephrine systems from crustaceans to humans is a powerful argument for stability of function. The Aston-Jones/Cohen theory of the phasic LC-NE signal is not necessarily inconsistent with this idea, because the authors note that the phasic signal effectively reconfigures the target cortical network from a multilayer to a single-layer network following a decision phase but does not capture the “network reset” idea.
We propose a functional relationship between signals of the LC/NE system and activity in the ventral attention network, both in relation to behavioral transitions (tonic signals) and target detection (phasic response). The decrease in tonic LC activity during the transition from an exploratory state to a task-focused state may parallel the deactivation of TPJ, relative to rest, when subjects engage in a demanding task (Shulman et al., 2003; Todd et al., 2005) (Figure 8Figure 8). The Aston-Jones/Cohen theory maintains that a decrease in the tonic level of LC activity promotes engagement on the current task and filtering of distracters, similar to the hypothesis that the ventral attention network is deactivated under demanding conditions, reflecting a top-down “filtering” signal that restricts the network response to a narrow range of task-relevant stimuli (targets or contingent distracters). Conversely, the hypothesized broad sensitivity to environmental stimuli during the high tonic activity/exploratory LC mode in the Aston-Jones/Cohen model may correspond to the ability of any salient stimulus to activate TPJ during passive viewing or no-task states (Downar et al., 2000). We reviewed evidence above that the sources of top-down filtering signals into the ventral network are either the dorsal network through prefrontal cortex (Figures 5CFigure 5 and and2B)2BFigure 2) or prefrontal regions (anterior cingulate, frontal operculum; Figure 5CFigure 5) directly or indirectly through their projection via LC. On the output side, LC-NE neurons densely projects to inferior parietal cortex and superior temporal gyrus, possible homologs of human TPJ (Foote and Morrison, 1987; Morrison and Foote, 1986). Therefore, as shown in Figure 8Figure 8, the deactivation of the ventral attention network during focused attention may be partly caused by a decrement of tonic activity in the LC/NE system.
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Relationship between Activity in TPJ and Locus Coeruleus/Noradrenergic System
There is also a striking similarity between the target-related response in the ventral network, P300 potentials, and the phasic response in the LC (Table 1). All three (ventral network, P300, LC neurons) show enhanced responses to behaviorally relevant stimuli (targets) in multiple modalities, relative to distracters, and an enhanced response to low-frequency targets. Detection of unattended targets (i.e., “invalid” targets in the Posner cueing paradigm) enhances both TPJ activity and the amplitude of a late positive potential that may correspond to P300 (Mangun and Hillyard, 1991), while stimuli of high emotional valence modulate P300 and LC activity. On the response output side, TPJ activity, P300, and LC activity are relatively independent of response parameters (Astafiev et al., 2006; Clayton et al., 2004; McCarthy and Donchin, 1981). Finally, both P300 and LC activity can be anatomically linked to TPJ. Lesions of different parts of the ventral attention network affect different components of P300, with TPJ damage decreasing both target- and novel-evoked P300 components and prefrontal lesions affecting the novelty response (Yamaguchi and Knight, 1991b; Verleger et al., 1994; Daffner et al., 2000). A recent study showed that oddball target responses in TPJ and prefrontal cortex were abolished by propranolol, a β-adrenergic blocker drug (Strange and Dolan, 2007).
Table 1
Table 1
Ventral Attention Network/P300/LC Activity
These physiological similarities point to similar functions. The hypothesis that the ventral attention network is involved in reorienting from one task state to another, either in the environment or between internally and externally directed activities, is very close to the network-reset hypothesis of Bouret and Sarah. A network reset or interrupt hypothesis captures the sensitivity of the ventral attention network to task transitions or unexpected events that may require the dorsal network to be reconfigured (as in Figures 6BFigure 6 and and7A).7AFigure 7). Under these conditions, activity in the dorsal network reflects the reconfiguration of task processes (stimulus and motor representations) in response to the new contingency, while activity in the ventral network facilitates rather than initiates this reset or reconfiguration process. We have already discussed that activity in the ventral network, as indexed by the P300, may not be sufficiently fast to initiate a reorienting response. A similar argument applies to the LC-NE system, which has a relatively long latency to a stimulus (~100–150 ms) and a slow transmission of its output to the cortex (~50–100 ms). In the context of a nonlinear dynamic system, the highly synchronized LC-NE activation of the ventral network may allow the dorsal network to switch to or settle into another state more appropriate for the new environmental situation (Serences and Yantis, 2006).
While the adaptive-gain theory of Aston-Jones and Cohen is concerned with the role of LC/NE activity in categorization and responding to attended targets, an interrupt/reset/reorienting framework includes other situations discussed above, such as stimulus-driven shifts of attention, transitions between rest and an extended task period, and detection of event boundaries.
The disruption of a reset signal may impair shifting between objects or events in the environment and thus underlie nonlateralized attentional impairments after damage of ventral frontal and temporoparietal cortex (Husain and Rorden, 2003), such as poorer detection or identification of targets in both visual fields (Duncan et al., 1999; He et al., 2007a; Peers et al., 2005), problems with vigilance (Heilman et al., 1987b; Robertson, 2001; Wilkins et al., 1987), and an extended “attentional blink” (Husain et al., 1997; Shapiro et al., 2002). Moreveor, impaired interactions between the ventral and dorsal attention network (Corbetta et al., 2005; He et al., 2007a) produce activity imbalances in parietal spatial maps that result in a tonic attentional bias toward the ipsilesional field. Transient increases in vigilance improve spatial attention and perception (Robertson, 2001; Robertson et al., 1998), presumably through an augmentation of LC-NE output that leads to a more normal interaction between the two networks.
This review of the function of the ventral attention network suggests several novel avenues for future investigation. It is important to know the timing of the activation of ventral and dorsal networks on timescales that are closer to the underlying neural signals and whether temporal codes such as synchronization and coherence link widely separate neuronal populations during selection and behavioral reorienting. The recent combination of fMRI and EEG/MEG methods, as well as the integration of TMS/fMRI and EEG, should provide important information on timing and causal interactions between areas. Also, the evolutionary precursors of the ventral attention network and its right hemisphere lateralization could be uncovered by neuroimaging and single-unit studies of primates. An ongoing and critical issue is the relationship between different attentional functions and neuromodulatory systems, especially noradrenaline, acetylcholine, and dopamine, for which there is already strong evidence of a role in attention and learning. Finally, further exploration into human pathologies, both focal (e.g., stroke) and nonfocal (e.g., traumatic brain injuries, attention-deficit disorders), using cognitive neuroscience models of attention, may lead to a better theory of these debilitating conditions.
Acknowledgments
This work was supported by the J.S. McDonnell Foundation, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R01 NS48013), the National Institute of Mental Health (R01 MH71920-06), and a Marie Curie Chair European Union (MEXC-CT-2004-006783). We thank Jan De Fockert, Emiliano Macaluso, John Serences, René Marois, Vinod Menon, Devarajan Sridharan, Nikos Dosenbach, Steve Petersen, Jean Decety, Jason Mitchell, Kevin A. Pelphrey, and Gary Aston-Jones for generously providing illustration of their results. We would like also to thank James Bisley, Christos Constantidinis, Ron Mangun, and Joe Hopfinger for helpful discussions.
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