From Thought to Action: The Parietal Cortex as a Bridge between Perception, Action, and Cognition

@article{citeulike:1036998, abstract = {The lateral intraparietal area (LIP) is a subdivision of the inferior parietal lobe that has been implicated in the guidance of spatial attention. In a variety of tasks, LIP provides a "salience representation" of the external world--a topographic visual representation that encodes the locations of salient or behaviorally relevant objects. Recent neurophysiological experiments show that this salience representation incorporates information about multiple behavioral variables--such as a specific motor response, reward, or category membership--associated with the task-relevant object. This integration occurs in a wide variety of tasks, including those requiring eye or limb movements or goal-directed or nontargeting operant responses. Thus, LIP acts as a multifaceted behavioral integrator that binds visuospatial, motor, and cognitive information into a topographically organized signal of behavioral salience. By specifying attentional priority as a synthesis of multiple task demands, LIP operates at the interface of perception, action, and cognition.}, author = {Gottlieb, Jacqueline }, citeulike-article-id = {1036998}, doi = {10.1016/j.neuron.2006.12.009}, journal = {Neuron}, keywords = {attention, lip, review, salience}, month = {January}, number = {1}, pages = {9--16}, posted-at = {2007-10-04 21:18:49}, priority = {2}, title = {From Thought to Action: The Parietal Cortex as a Bridge between Perception, Action, and Cognition}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2006.12.009}, volume = {53}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1036998 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1036998 TI - From Thought to Action: The Parietal Cortex as a Bridge between Perception, Action, and Cognition JF - Neuron VL - 53 IS - 1 SP - 9 EP - 16 N2 - The lateral intraparietal area (LIP) is a subdivision of the inferior parietal lobe that has been implicated in the guidance of spatial attention. In a variety of tasks, LIP provides a "salience representation" of the external world--a topographic visual representation that encodes the locations of salient or behaviorally relevant objects. Recent neurophysiological experiments show that this salience representation incorporates information about multiple behavioral variables--such as a specific motor response, reward, or category membership--associated with the task-relevant object. This integration occurs in a wide variety of tasks, including those requiring eye or limb movements or goal-directed or nontargeting operant responses. Thus, LIP acts as a multifaceted behavioral integrator that binds visuospatial, motor, and cognitive information into a topographically organized signal of behavioral salience. By specifying attentional priority as a synthesis of multiple task demands, LIP operates at the interface of perception, action, and cognition. KW - attention KW - lip KW - review KW - salience AU - Gottlieb, Jacqueline PY - 2007/01/04/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2006.12.009 ER -