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dc.creatorORTEGA,RODRIGO
dc.creatorLÓPEZ,VLADIMIR
dc.creatorABOITIZ,FRANCISCO
dc.date2008-12-01
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dc.identifierhttps://scielo.conicyt.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-97602008000400010
dc.identifier.urihttp://revistaschilenas.uchile.cl/handle/2250/81891
dc.descriptionThe present study explores the neural correlates of voluntary modulations of attention in an auditory-visual matching task. Visual stimuli (a female or a male face) were preceded in cióse temporal proximity by auditory stimuli consisting of the Spanish word for "man" and "woman" ("hombre" or "mujer"). In 80% of the triáis the gender of the two stimuli coincided. Participants were asked to mentally count the specific instances in which a female face appeared after hearing the word "man" (10 % of the triáis). Our results show attention-related amplitude modulation of the early visual ERP components NI and anterior P2, but also amplitude modulations of (i) the N270 potential usually associated with conflict detection, (ii) a P300 wave related to infrequency, and (iii) an N400 potential related to semantic incongruence. The elicitation of these latter components varied according to task manipulations, evidencing the role of voluntary allocation of attention in fine-tuning cognitive processing, which includes basic processes like detection of infrequency or semantic incongruity often considered to be volition-independent.
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dc.languageen
dc.publisherSociedad de Biología de Chile
dc.relation10.4067/S0716-97602008000400010
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.sourceBiological Research v.41 n.4 2008
dc.subjectVoluntary attention
dc.subjectsemantic processing
dc.subjectTop down control
dc.subjectERP components
dc.titleVoluntary modulations of attention in a semantic auditory-visual matching Task: an ERP study


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