Pupillometry as an integrated readout of distinct attentional networks

C. Strauch; Chin-An Wang; Wolfgang Einhäuser; Stefan van der Stigchel; Marnix Naber

doi:10.1016/j.tins.2022.05.003

Pupillometry as an integrated readout of distinct attentional networks

C. Strauch, Chin-An Wang, Wolfgang Einhäuser, Stefan van der Stigchel, Marnix Naber

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Abstract

The course of pupillary constriction and dilation provides an easy-to-access, inexpensive, and noninvasive readout of brain activity. We propose a new taxonomy of factors affecting the pupil and link these to associated neural underpinnings in an ascending hierarchy. In addition to two well-established low-level factors (light level and focal distance), we suggest two further intermediate-level factors, alerting and orienting, and a higher-level factor, executive functioning. Alerting, orienting, and executive functioning – including their respective underlying neural circuitries – overlap with the three principal attentional networks, making pupil size an integrated readout of distinct states of attention. As a now widespread technique, pupillometry is ready to provide meaningful applications and constitutes a viable part of the psychophysiological toolbox.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	635-647
Number of pages	13
Journal	Trends in Neurosciences
Volume	45
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tins.2022.05.003
Publication status	Published - Aug 2022

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Funding Information:
S.V.d.S. was funded by a European Research Council consolidator grant ( ERC-CoG-863732) , M.N. was funded by an UitZicht grant ( 2018-10 , Rotterdamse Stichting Blindenbelangen), and C.-A.W. was funded by the Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology ( 111-2628-H-008-003 ).

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© 2022 Elsevier Ltd

Keywords

alerting
executive function
locus coeruleus
orienting
superior colliculus

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Pupillometry as an integrated readout of distinct attentional networks

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