Dynamic Attentional Control Through Mixed Prefrontal Cortex Resources
Di Bello, F.; Ceccarelli, F.; Messinger, A.; Genovesio, A.
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Spatial attention can be either involuntarily drawn to salient, unexpected events (exogenous attention) or voluntarily directed (endogenous attention). Evidence suggests a link of both forms of attention to the (oculo)motor system. We investigated the role of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in this relationship using a task that spatially dissociated attention from motor planning in two monkeys. PFC units flexibly encoded either the attended location or motor target, with some showing overlapping coding. Endogenous attention promotes an early engagement of these shared resources, producing two key effects: (1) it prevents interference between motor and attention systems, and (2) it regulates the extent of the exogenous shifts for attentional capture, with stronger shifts occurring when endogenous attention is weak. Overall, we show that there are separate attention and motor systems, each of which can flexibly draw on some "overlapping" resources based on environmental and internal demands.
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