Abstract
Commentary: Top-down and bottom-up modulation of pain-induced oscillations.
Highlights
Reviewed by: Daniel Senkowski, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany Markus Ploner, Technische Universität München, Germany Michael Hauck, University Hospital Hamburg Eppendorf, Germany
Bottom-up capture of attention is often conceived as an unintentional and automatic process ruled by the competition between stimulus features, whereas top-down selection concerns an intentional process pertaining to intrinsic motivational and task-related aspects ruled by the subject (Buschman and Miller, 2007)
In a recent issue of Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Hauck et al (2015) used electroencephalography (EEG) to investigate the oscillatory neuronal modulation exerted by both top-down and bottom-up attention during nociceptive painful stimulation
Summary
Reviewed by: Daniel Senkowski, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany Markus Ploner, Technische Universität München, Germany Michael Hauck, University Hospital Hamburg Eppendorf, Germany. In a recent issue of Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Hauck et al (2015) used electroencephalography (EEG) to investigate the oscillatory neuronal modulation exerted by both top-down and bottom-up attention during nociceptive painful stimulation. To disentangle how the two attentional processes influence neuronal synchronization and desynchronization, the authors manipulated both nociceptive stimulus intensity (i.e., high vs low; bottom-up orientation) and spatial attention to the stimuli (i.e., attended vs unattended; top-down control).
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