Dorsal attention network

Dorsal and ventral attention systems
Interaction between dorsal and ventral attention networks enables dynamic control of attention in relation to top-down goals and bottom-up sensory stimulation.[1]

The dorsal attention network (DAN), also known anatomically as the dorsal frontoparietal network (D-FPN), is a large-scale brain network of the human brain that is primarily composed of the intraparietal sulcus (IPS) and frontal eye fields (FEF).[2][3] It is named and most known for its role in voluntary orienting of visuospatial attention.[4][5]

As the IPS and FEF were noticed to be activated during many attention-demanding tasks, this network was sometimes referred to as the task-positive network to contrast it against the task-negative network, or default mode network.[6] However, this dichotomy is now considered misleading, because the default mode network can be active in certain cognitive tasks.[7]

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