Fig. 3.

Attentional bias in anterior and posterior lateral occipital complex (aLOC/pLOC). (A) Region-of-interest analyses confirmed attentional activation of shape-specific neural patterns in bilateral pLOC and aLOC. (B) Time-course analyses revealed that attentional modulation of target-specific patterns following the onset of the cue stimulus was sustained throughout the duration of the trial. In contrast with the sustained attentional modulation, (C) presentation of target stimuli resulted in a transient activation of target-specific neural populations. (D) The accuracy of the pattern match between template-specific bias observed in the attention task and stimulus-driven perception defined by the pattern-localizer within aLOC was positively correlated with detection accuracy for subsequently presented target stimuli (r = 0.59, P = 0.016), but not within pLOC (P = 0.434). (E) Finally, time-course analysis of the correlation between visual template activation and target detection revealed a stronger relationship during the latter portion of the attention trial. Error bars, ± 1 SEM.