Abstract
Visual selective attention can be achieved into bottom-up and top-down attention. Different selective attention tasks involve different attention control ways. The pop-out task requires more bottom-up attention, whereas the search task involves more top-down attention. P300, which is the positive potential generated by the brain in the latency of 300 ~ 600 ms after stimulus, reflects the processing of attention. There is no consensus on the P300 source. The aim of present study is to study the source of P300 elicited by different visual selective attention. We collected thirteen participants’ P300 elicited by pop-out and search tasks with event-related potentials (ERP). We collected twenty-six participants’ activation brain regions in pop-out and search tasks with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). And we analyzed the sources of P300 using the ERP and fMRI integration with high temporal resolution and high spatial resolution. ERP results indicated that the pop-out task induced larger P300 than the search task. P300 induced by the two tasks distributed at frontal and parietal lobes, with P300 induced by the pop-out task mainly at the parietal lobe and that induced by the search task mainly at the frontal lobe. Further ERP and fMRI integration analysis showed that neural difference sources of P300 were the right precentral gyrus, left superior frontal gyrus (medial orbital), left middle temporal gyrus, left rolandic operculum, right postcentral gyrus, and left angular gyrus. Our study suggests that the frontal and parietal lobes contribute to the P300 component of visual selective attention.
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This work was supported by the National Nature Science Foundation of China [Grant Number 62176045]; the Programme of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities (the 111 project) [Grant Number B12027], and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [ZYGX2020FRJH014].
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Zhang, Q., Luo, C., Ngetich, R. et al. Visual Selective Attention P300 Source in Frontal-Parietal Lobe: ERP and fMRI Study. Brain Topogr 35, 636–650 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10548-022-00916-x
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