Electrophysiological and functional magnetic resonance imaging investigations on the influence of spatial and feature-based attention on the flanker effect

Abstract

Attention represents an almost ubiquitous field in neuroscientific research. It can be manipulated in many ways including direction, intensity or selectivity of attention. An unanswered question remains concerning the possibility to suppress distracting information through top-down attentional control. The present doctoral thesis addresses this topic and furthermore contrasts two main attention types (spatial and feature-based allocation). For this purpose, both anatomical and temporal data were collected and brought together in a common source analysis.