Top-down Enhancement and Suppression of the Magnitude and Speed of Neural Activity
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Dissecting Contributions of Prefrontal Cortex and Fusiform Face Area to Face Working Memory
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Mental Imagery of Faces and Places Activates Corresponding Stiimulus-Specific Brain Regions
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Face-specific processing in the human fusiform gyrus
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
The effect of attention on repetition suppression and multivoxel pattern similarity
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
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Recent research has demonstrated top-down attentional modulation of activity in extrastriate category-selective visual areas while stimuli are in view (perceptual attention) and after they are removed from view (reflective attention). Perceptual attention is capable of both enhancing and suppressing activity in category-selective areas relative to a passive viewing baseline. In this study, we demonstrate that a brief, simple act of reflective attention ("refreshing") is also capable of both enhancing and suppressing activity in some scene-selective areas (the parahippocampal place area [PPA]) but not others (refreshing resulted in enhancement but not in suppression in the middle occipital gyrus [MOG]). This suggests that different category-selective extrastriate areas preferring the same class of stimuli may contribute differentially to reflective processing of one's internal representations of such stimuli.