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The Neural Mechanisms for Minimizing Cross-Modal Distraction by Weissman, D. H, Warner, L. M, Woldorff, M. G

“…The neural circuitry that increases attention to goal-relevant stimuli when we are in danger of becoming distracted is a matter of active debate. To address…”
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The neural circuitry underlying the executive control of auditory spatial attention by Wu, C.-T, Weissman, D.H, Roberts, K.C, Woldorff, M.G

“…Abstract Although a fronto-parietal network has consistently been implicated in the control of visual spatial attention, the network that guides spatial…”
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Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex Resolves Conflict from Distracting Stimuli by Boosting Attention toward Relevant Events by Weissman, D.H., Gopalakrishnan, A., Hazlett, C.J., Woldorff, M.G.

“…In everyday life, we often focus greater attention on behaviorally relevant stimuli to limit the processing of distracting events. For example, when…”
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Hemispheric Asymmetries for Different Components of Global/Local Attention Occur in Distinct Temporo-parietal Loci by Weissman, D.H., Woldorff, M.G.

“…Data from brain-damaged and neurologically intact populations indicate hemispheric asymmetries in the temporo-parietal cortex for discriminating an object's…”
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fMRI evidence for both generalized and specialized components of attentional control by Slagter, H.A, Giesbrecht, B, Kok, A, Weissman, D.H, Kenemans, J.L, Woldorff, M.G, Mangun, G.R

“…Abstract A central question in the study of selective attention is whether top–down attentional control mechanisms are generalized or specialized for the type…”
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Momentary reductions of attention permit greater processing of irrelevant stimuli by Weissman, D.H., Warner, L.M., Woldorff, M.G.

“…Momentary reductions of attention can have extremely adverse outcomes, but it remains unclear whether increased distraction from irrelevant stimuli contributes…”
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Cognitive control in social situations: A role for the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex by Weissman, D.H., Perkins, A.S., Woldorff, M.G.

“…Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we investigated brain activity elicited by a computer-animated child's actions that appeared consistent and…”
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The neural bases of momentary lapses in attention by Weissman, D H, Roberts, K C, Visscher, K M, Woldorff, M G

“…Momentary lapses in attention frequently impair goal-directed behavior, sometimes with serious consequences. Nevertheless, we lack an integrated view of the…”
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Conflict monitoring in the human anterior cingulate cortex during selective attention to global and local object features by Weissman, D.H, Giesbrecht, B, Song, A.W, Mangun, G.R, Woldorff, M.G

“…Parallel processing affords the brain many advantages, but processing multiple bits of information simultaneously presents formidable challenges. For example,…”
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Brain regions activated by endogenous preparatory set shifting as revealed by fMRI by SLAGTER, H. A, WEISSMAN, D. H, GIESBRECHT, B, KENEMANS, J. L, MANGUN, G. R, KOK, A, WOLDORFF, M. G

“…An ongoing controversy concerns whether executive control mechanisms can actively reconfigure the cognitive system in preparation for switching to a new task…”
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The Cerebral Hemispheres Cooperate to Perform Complex but not Simple Tasks by Weissman, Daniel H, Banich, Marie T

“…Three experiments were designed to examine whether task complexity determines the degree to which a division of processing across the hemispheres (i.e.,…”
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A Role for Top-Down Attentional Orienting during Interference between Global and Local Aspects of Hierarchical Stimuli by Weissman, D.H., Mangun, G.R., Woldorff, M.G.

“…Various models of selective attention propose that greater attention is allocated toward target stimuli when conflicting distracters make selection more…”
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Anterior Cingulate Cortex Makes 2 Contributions to Minimizing Distraction by Orr, Joseph M., Weissman, Daniel H.

“…When we detect conflicting irrelevant stimuli (e.g., nearby conversations), we often minimize distraction by increasing attention to relevant stimuli. However,…”
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Global-Local Interference Modulated by Communication Between the Hemispheres by Weissman, Daniel H, Banich, Marie T

“…Three experiments examined whether interhemispheric interaction modulates selective attention in a same-different version of D. Navon's (1977) global-local…”
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One of Twenty Questions for the Twenty-First Century: How Do Brain Regions Interact and Integrate Information? by Banich, Marie T., Weissman, Daniel H.

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Pre-target activity in visual cortex predicts behavioral performance on spatial and feature attention tasks by Giesbrecht, Barry, Weissman, Daniel H., Woldorff, Marty G., Mangun, George R.

“…Physiological studies in humans and monkeys have revealed that, in response to an instruction to attend, areas of sensory cortex that code the attributes of…”
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Functional parcellation of attentional control regions of the brain by Woldorff, Marty G, Hazlett, Chad J, Fichtenholtz, Harlan M, Weissman, Daniel H, Dale, Anders M, Song, Allen W

“…Recently, a number of investigators have examined the neural loci of psychological processes enabling the control of visual spatial attention using…”
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Effects of practice on executive control investigated with fMRI by Weissman, D.H, Woldorff, M.G, Hazlett, C.J, Mangun, G.R

“…Various models of executive control predict that practice should modulate the recruitment of executive brain mechanisms. To investigate this issue, we asked 15…”
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General and task-specific frontal lobe recruitment in older adults during executive processes: A fMRI investigation of task-switching by DiGirolamo, Gregory J, Kramer, Arthur F, Barad, Vikram, Cepeda, Nicholas J, Weissman, Daniel H, Milham, Michael P, Wszalek, Tracey M, Cohen, Neal J, Banich, Marie T, Webb, Andrew, Belopolsky, Artem V, McAuley, Edward

“…Performance deteriorates when subjects must shift between two different tasks relative to performing either task separately. This switching cost is thought to…”
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Variations of response time in a selective attention task are linked to variations of functional connectivity in the attentional network by Prado, Jérôme, Carp, Joshua, Weissman, Daniel H.

“…Although variations of response time (RT) within a particular experimental condition are typically ignored, they may sometimes reflect meaningful changes in…”
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