Anterior Prefrontal Contributions to Implicit Attention Control
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Prefrontal Involvement in High-Level Cognition in the Absence of Awareness
3. Frontopolar Involvement in the Implicit Control of Attention
3.1. Cross-Dimensional Visual Singleton Search
3.2. Contextual Cueing
3.3. Relation to Theoretical Accounts of Anterior Prefrontal Cortex Function
3.4. Differentiation within Anterior Prefrontal Cortex?
3.5. How Implicit Is Implicit Attention Control?
4. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
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Pollmann, S. Anterior Prefrontal Contributions to Implicit Attention Control. Brain Sci. 2012, 2, 254-266. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci2020254
Pollmann S. Anterior Prefrontal Contributions to Implicit Attention Control. Brain Sciences. 2012; 2(2):254-266. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci2020254
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