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Journal Club: "Sources of Spatial and Feature-Based Attention in the Human Brain"

posted Aug 13, 2009 9:26 AM by Sora .

In September of 2008, Journal of Neuroscience covered one of Tobias's papers, Neural integration of top-down spatial and feature-based information in visual search, in Peelen and Mruczek's Sources of Spatial and Feature-Based Attention in the Human Brain.


Peelen, M., Mruczek, R. (2008). Sources of Spatial and Feature-Based Attention in the Human Brain. Journal of Neuroscience, 28 (38), 9328-9329.
Egner T, Monti JM, Trittschuh EH, Wieneke CA, Hirsch J, Mesulam MM. (2008). Neural integration of top-down spatial and feature-based information in visual search. Journal of Neuroscience, 28, 6141-51.

Research Highlight: "Conflicting emotions"

posted Aug 13, 2009 9:01 AM by Sora .   [ updated Aug 13, 2009 10:46 AM ]

In December of 2007, Nature Reviews Neuroscience again featured work from one of Tobias's papers, this time Dissociable neural systems resolve conflict from emotional versus non-emotional distracters, as one of its research highlights, Conflicting emotions.


Welberg, L. (2007). Conflicting emotions. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 8, doi:10.1038/nrn2288.
Egner, T., Etkin, A., Gale, S., Hirsch, J. (2007). Dissociable neural systems resolve conflict from emotional versus non-emotional distracters. Cerebral Cortex, doi:10.1093/cercor/bhm179.

Research Highlight: "Visions of faces"

posted Aug 13, 2009 8:33 AM by Sora .   [ updated Aug 13, 2009 10:46 AM ]

In January of 2007, Nature Reviews Neuroscience featured work from Tobias's 2006 Science paper, Predictive Codes for Forthcoming Perception in the Frontal Cortex, as one of its research highlights, Visions of faces.


Welberg, L. (2007). Visions of faces. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 8, 5.
Summerfield, C., Egner, T., Greene, M.S., Koechlin, E., Mangels, J.A., Hirsch, J. (2006). Predictive Codes for Forthcoming Perception in the Frontal Cortex. Science, 314, 1311-1314.

News & Views: "Neural mechanisms of attention & control: losing our inhibitions?"

posted Aug 13, 2009 8:06 AM by Sora .   [ updated Aug 13, 2009 8:38 AM ]

The 2005 Nature Neuroscience News & Views article, Neural mechanisms of attention and control: losing our inhibitions?, by Nieuwenhuis and Yeung focused on the paper by Egner and Hirsch, Cognitive control mechanisms resolve conflict through cortical amplification of task-relevant information.


Nieuwenhuis, S., Yeung, N. (2005). Neural mechanisms of attention and control: losing our inhibitions? Nature Neuroscience, 8 (12), 1631-1633.

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