Specific contributions of ventromedial, anterior cingulate, and lateral prefrontal cortex for attentional selection and stimulus valuation.

Attentional control ensures that neuronal processes prioritize the most relevant stimulus in a given environment. Controlling which stimulus is attended thus originates from neurons encoding the relevance of stimuli, i.e. their expected value, in hand with neurons encoding contextual information abo...

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Main Authors: Daniel Kaping, Martin Vinck, R Matthew Hutchison, Stefan Everling, Thilo Womelsdorf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-12-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3246452?pdf=render