Orbitofrontal cortex is activated during breaches of expectation in tasks of visual attention
Nature NeurosciencePublished 1 January 1999
Anna C. Nobre, Jennifer T. Coull, Chris Frith, M.‐Marsel Mesulam
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PET is used to demonstrate that prefrontal cortex was activated when the learned and expected stimulus associations that guide behavior were violated, requiring inhibition of the prepared response and redirection of the focus of attention, in variants of a classic task of visual spatial orienting of attention.
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