Figure 1.

Ignore-related, pre-stimulus alpha activity over modality-specific regions of the cortex. The length of the pre-stimulus interval between cue offset and stimulus onset varied per experiment. A) Relative increase in alpha power in left somatosensory cortex when cued to attend to left stimulation; relative decrease in alpha power in right somatosensory cortex when cued to attend to left stimulation. B) Alpha power over left frontal-temporal regions involved in language processing was greater in the ignore-font condition than in the attend-font condition for printed words. C) Alpha power over right posterior regions involved in auditory attention was greater in the ignore-voice condition than in the attend-voice condition for spoken words. D) Alpha power over posterior regions involved in visual attention was greater in the ignore-visual condition than in the attend-visual condition for non-verbalizable Gabors. A) Data adapted from "Top-down controlled alpha band activity in somatosensory areas determines behavioral performance in a discrimination task" by S. Haegens, B.F. Handel, and O. Jensen, 2011, Journal of Neuroscience, 31(14), p. 5197. The original figure scale reflected p-values. The author’s adapted the scale to the corresponding t-scores in order to match the other three plots in this figure. B) and C) Reprinted from "Paying attention to attention in recognition memory: Insights from models and electrophysiology" by C. Dubé L. Payne, R. Sekuler, and C. Rotello, 2013, Psychological Science, (In press), Copyright 2013 by Sage. D) Data adapted from "Attention-modulated alphaband oscillations protect against intrusion of irrelevant information" by L. Payne, S. Guillory, and R. Sekuler, 2013, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 25:9, p.1463–1476, Copyright 2013 by MIT Press. The original figure scale was from 4 to +4 t-scores. It was adapted to the 0 to 4 scale to match C) and D) in this figure.