Question

1. Describe the differences between focused, selective, sustained, and divided attention? What brain regions are part of the attention network? (5 points)

Answer 1

Focused attention assist with ability to concentrate its attention on a target stimulus at any period of time. Selective attention helps to select from various stimuli and filtering out distractions. Divided atteential refers to the ability to concentrate on more than one stimuli at a time. Sustained attention is one which enable to sustain with activity for a long period of time.

During attention task, the dorsal attention network (DAN) comprises and connectsvarious brian regions including visual motion area, frontal eye fields, superior parietal lobule, intraparietal sulcus, and ventral premotor cortex.