The Spatial Attention Network Interacts with Limbic and Monoaminergic Systems to Modulate Motivation-Induced Attention Shifts
Mohanty A, Gitelman DR, Small DM, Mesulam MM. The Spatial Attention Network Interacts with Limbic and Monoaminergic Systems to Modulate Motivation-Induced Attention Shifts. Cerebral Cortex 2008, 18: 2604-2613. PMID: 18308706, PMCID: PMC2567423, DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn021.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPosterior parietal cortexSpatial attentionPosterior cingulateAttentional targetsSpatial attention paradigmFood-related cuesStrong functional couplingAttentional biasingAttentional resourcesAttentional shiftsMotivational relevanceAttention paradigmCentral cuesAttention shiftsMotivational salienceMotivational valueMotivational informationMotivational stateMotivational needsIntraparietal sulcusOrbitofrontal cortexParietal cortexFood targetsSelective allocationMultiple domains