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Insights from event-related potentials into the temporal and hierarchical organization of the ventral and dorsal streams of the visual system in selective attention

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 1999

MANUEL MARTÍN-LOECHES
Affiliation:
Brain Mapping Unit, Pluridisciplinary Institute, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
JOSÉ A. HINOJOSA
Affiliation:
Brain Mapping Unit, Pluridisciplinary Institute, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
FRANCISCO J. RUBIA
Affiliation:
Brain Mapping Unit, Pluridisciplinary Institute, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
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Abstract

The temporal and hierarchical relationships between the dorsal and the ventral streams in selective attention are known only in relation to the use of spatial location as the attentional cue mediated by the dorsal stream. To improve this state of affairs, event-related brain potentials were recorded while subjects attended simultaneously to motion direction (mediated by the dorsal stream) and to a property mediated by the ventral stream (color or shape). At about the same time, a selection positivity (SP) started for attention mediated by both streams. However, the SP for color and shape peaked about 60 ms later than motion SP. Subsequently, a selection negativity (SN) followed by a late positive component (LPC) were found simultaneously for attention mediated by both streams. A hierarchical relationship between the two streams was not observed, but neither SN nor LPC for one property was completely insensitive to the values of the other property.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1999 Society for Psychophysiological Research

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