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Studies of 11 young subjects addressed the analysis of evoked potentials in the parietal and temporal areas to sequential presentation of visual symbols on the left and right sides; symbols were squares and circles and were observed passively and in conditions of selective attention to target stimuli presented to the subjects in random order and requiring rapid and precise motor responses. Comparison of monopolar evoked potentials in leads P3, P4, T3, T4, T5, and T6 with bipolar potentials in leads P3-T3, P3-T5, P4-T4, and P4-T6 in conditions of passive and selective attention showed that voluntary attention was accompanied by significant rearrangements in evoked activity in the parietal and temporal areas. This was evident as: 1) an increase in correlations between evoked potentials in the parietal and temporal areas; 2) stabilization of monopolar evoked potentials over time, i.e., increases in the correlations of sequential evoked potentials, in both associative visual areas; 3) stabilization of bipolar parietal-temporal evoked potentials in terms of increases in their sequential correlations. It is suggested that selective attention facilitates linked activity of the two associative areas, which is needed for performance of visual selection.
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Translated from Rossiiskii Fiziologicheskii Zhurnal imeni I. M. Sechenova, Vol. 89, No. 7, pp. 776–785, July, 2003.
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Baranov-Krylov, I.N., Shuvaev, V.T. Effects of selective visual attention in the parietal and temporal areas of the human cortex using evoked potential data. Neurosci Behav Physiol 35, 159–164 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11055-005-0008-2
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