Published December 15, 2006
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Greater Disruption Due to Failure of Inhibitory Control on an Ambiguous Distractor
Abstract
Considerable evidence indicates that a stimulus that is subthreshold, and thus consciously invisible, influences brain activity and behavioral performance. However, it is not clear how subthreshold stimuli are processed in the brain. We found that a task-irrelevant subthreshold coherent motion led to a stronger disturbance in task performance than did suprathreshold motion. With the subthreshold motion, activity in the visual cortex measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging was higher, but activity in the lateral prefrontal cortex was lower, than with suprathreshold motion. These results suggest that subthreshold irrelevant signals are not subject to effective inhibitory control.
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© 2006 American Association for the Advancement of Science. Received 31 July 2006; accepted 20 October 2006. This study is funded by grants from NIH (R01 EY015980 and R21 EY017737), NSF (BCS-0345746, BCS-0549036, and BCS-PR04-137 Center of Excellence for Learning in Education, Science, and Technology), and the Human Frontier Science Program Organization (RGP18/2004) to T.W., and by grants from National Center for Research Resources (P41RR14075), the Mental Illness and Neuroscience Discovery Institute, the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, and the ERATO Shimojo Implicit Brain Function project to Y.S. We thank P. Cavanagh, Y. Kamitani, M. Kawato, I. Motoyoshi, J. Nanez, M. Sakagami, S. Shimojo, and the members of Vision Sciences Laboratory at Boston University for their comments on the study and N. Ito and Y. Yotsumoto for technical assistance.Attached Files
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- R01 EY015980
- NIH
- R21 EY017737
- NIH
- BCS-0345746
- NSF
- BCS-0549036
- NSF
- BCS-PR04-137
- NSF
- RGP18/2004
- Human Frontier Science Program
- P41RR14075
- NIH
- Mental Illness and Neuroscience Discovery Institute
- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
- ERATO Shimojo Implicit Brain Function Project
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