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Frontoparietal activation during visual conjunction search: Effects of bottom-up guidance and adult age.

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2017-04
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Madden, David J
Parks, Emily L
Tallman, Catherine W
Boylan, Maria A
Hoagey, David A
Cocjin, Sally B
Johnson, Micah A
Chou, Ying-Hui
Potter, Guy G
Chen, Nan-Kuei
Packard, Lauren E
Siciliano, Rachel E
Monge, Zachary A
Diaz, Michele T
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We conducted functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) with a visual search paradigm to test the hypothesis that aging is associated with increased frontoparietal involvement in both target detection and bottom-up attentional guidance (featural salience). Participants were 68 healthy adults, distributed continuously across 19 to 78 years of age. Frontoparietal regions of interest (ROIs) were defined from resting-state scans obtained prior to task-related fMRI. The search target was defined by a conjunction of color and orientation. Each display contained one item that was larger than the others (i.e., a size singleton) but was not informative regarding target identity. Analyses of search reaction time (RT) indicated that bottom-up attentional guidance from the size singleton (when coincident with the target) was relatively constant as a function of age. Frontoparietal fMRI activation related to target detection was constant as a function of age, as was the reduction in activation associated with salient targets. However, for individuals 35 years of age and older, engagement of the left frontal eye field (FEF) in bottom-up guidance was more prominent than for younger individuals. Further, the age-related differences in left FEF activation were a consequence of decreasing resting-state functional connectivity in visual sensory regions. These findings indicate that age-related compensatory effects may be expressed in the relation between activation and behavior, rather than in the magnitude of activation, and that relevant changes in the activation-RT relation may begin at a relatively early point in adulthood. Hum Brain Mapp 38:2128-2149, 2017. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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aging
attention
brain imaging
fMRI
perception
plasticity
reaction time
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/15955
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10.1002/hbm.23509
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Madden, David J; Parks, Emily L; Tallman, Catherine W; Boylan, Maria A; Hoagey, David A; Cocjin, Sally B; ... Diaz, Michele T (2017). Frontoparietal activation during visual conjunction search: Effects of bottom-up guidance and adult age. Hum Brain Mapp, 38(4). pp. 2128-2149. 10.1002/hbm.23509. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/15955.
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Chen

Nan-kuei Chen

Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Radiology
Dr. Chen is a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) physicist with research interest in fast image acquisition methodology, pulse sequence design, MRI artifact correction, and application of MRI to studies of neurological diseases. He has been developing novel high-resolution imaging protocols and analysis procedures for mapping structural and functional connectivity of brains. More generally, Dr. Chen's research involves the application of MRI in translational contexts. He has been serving as the pr

Ying-hui Chou

Medical Instructor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Madden

David Joseph Madden

Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
My research focuses primarily on the cognitive neuroscience of aging: the investigation of age-related changes in perception, attention, and memory, using both behavioral measures and neuroimaging techniques, including positron emission tomography (PET), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). The behavioral measures have focused on reaction time, with the goal of distinguishing age-related changes in specific cognitive abilities from mo

Zachary Monge

Research Assistant, Ph D Student
Parks

Emily L Parks

Lecturing Fellow of Thompson Writing Program
Potter

Guy Glenn Potter

Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
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