@article{ref1,
title="A rhythmic theory of attention",
journal="Trends in cognitive sciences",
year="2019",
author="Fiebelkorn, Ian C. and Kastner, Sabine",
volume="23",
number="2",
pages="87-101",
abstract="Recent evidence has demonstrated that environmental sampling is a fundamentally rhythmic process. Both perceptual sensitivity during covert spatial attention and the probability of overt exploratory movements are tethered to theta-band activity (3-8Hz) in the attention network. The fronto-parietal part of this network is positioned at the nexus of sensory and motor functions, directing two tightly coupled processes related to environmental exploration: preferential routing of sensory input and saccadic eye movements. We propose that intrinsic theta rhythms temporally resolve potential functional conflicts by periodically reweighting functional connections between higher-order brain regions and either sensory or motor regions. This rhythmic reweighting alternately promotes either sampling at a behaviorally relevant location (i.e., sensory functions) or shifting to another location (i.e., motor functions).<br><br>Copyright © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1364-6613",
doi="10.1016/j.tics.2018.11.009",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2018.11.009"
}