attentional shift

Attention can shift from object or location to another object or location {attentional shift}. Attention switches no more than twice per second. Attention shifts 50 milliseconds to 100 milliseconds after brain signal to shift attention. Attentional shift can involve eye movement {overt attentional shift} or no eye movement {covert attentional shift}. Attention shift uses dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, cingulate nucleus, frontal eye fields in area 8, area-7a posterior-parietal lobe, pulvinar nucleus, and superior colliculus.

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