The lateral intraparietal area (LIP) is a subdivision of the inferior parietal lobe that has been implicated
in the guidance of spatial attention. In a variety of tasks, LIP provides a ‘‘salience representation’’ of
the external world—a topographic visual representation that encodes the locations of salient or
behaviorally relevant objects. Recent neurophysiological experiments show that this salience representation
incorporates information about multiple behavioral variables—such as a specific motor
response, reward, or category membership—associated with the task-relevant object. This integration
occurs in a wide variety of tasks, including those requiring eye or limb movements or goaldirected
or nontargeting operant responses. Thus, LIP acts as a multifaceted behavioral integrator
that binds visuospatial, motor, and cognitive information into a topographically organized signal of
behavioral salience. By specifying attentional priority as a synthesis of multiple task demands, LIP
operates at the interface of perception, action, and cognition.
%0 Journal Article
%1 gottlieb2007thought
%A Gottlieb, Jacqueline
%D 2007
%I Elsevier
%J Neuron
%K action cognition cortex neurocognition parietal perception
%N 1
%P 9-16
%T From thought to action: the parietal cortex as a bridge between perception, action, and cognition
%U http://www.cse.msu.edu/ei/seminarreadings/LiuSS09_Talk1_2.pdf
%V 53
%X The lateral intraparietal area (LIP) is a subdivision of the inferior parietal lobe that has been implicated
in the guidance of spatial attention. In a variety of tasks, LIP provides a ‘‘salience representation’’ of
the external world—a topographic visual representation that encodes the locations of salient or
behaviorally relevant objects. Recent neurophysiological experiments show that this salience representation
incorporates information about multiple behavioral variables—such as a specific motor
response, reward, or category membership—associated with the task-relevant object. This integration
occurs in a wide variety of tasks, including those requiring eye or limb movements or goaldirected
or nontargeting operant responses. Thus, LIP acts as a multifaceted behavioral integrator
that binds visuospatial, motor, and cognitive information into a topographically organized signal of
behavioral salience. By specifying attentional priority as a synthesis of multiple task demands, LIP
operates at the interface of perception, action, and cognition.
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abstract = {The lateral intraparietal area (LIP) is a subdivision of the inferior parietal lobe that has been implicated
in the guidance of spatial attention. In a variety of tasks, LIP provides a ‘‘salience representation’’ of
the external world—a topographic visual representation that encodes the locations of salient or
behaviorally relevant objects. Recent neurophysiological experiments show that this salience representation
incorporates information about multiple behavioral variables—such as a specific motor
response, reward, or category membership—associated with the task-relevant object. This integration
occurs in a wide variety of tasks, including those requiring eye or limb movements or goaldirected
or nontargeting operant responses. Thus, LIP acts as a multifaceted behavioral integrator
that binds visuospatial, motor, and cognitive information into a topographically organized signal of
behavioral salience. By specifying attentional priority as a synthesis of multiple task demands, LIP
operates at the interface of perception, action, and cognition.},
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timestamp = {2009-12-06T12:30:05.000+0100},
title = {From thought to action: the parietal cortex as a bridge between perception, action, and cognition},
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