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    • Visual Perception

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    • The human brain has limited capacity to process sequential stimuli.
    • Voluntary temporal attention allows prioritization of task-relevant items.
    • The neural mechanisms and timing of temporal attention remain unclear.

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    • To investigate when and where temporal attention modulates visual representations.
    • To understand the neural basis of prioritizing specific moments in time.

    Main Methods:

    • A two-target temporal cueing task with predictable stimulus timing.
    • Magnetoencephalography (MEG) to record brain activity.
    • Time-resolved decoding to analyze spatiotemporal stimulus representations.

    Main Results:

    • Temporal attention enhanced the representation of the first target around 250 ms post-onset.
    • This enhancement was observed in the left frontal and cingulate cortex.
    • No significant enhancement was found in the visual cortex.

    Conclusions:

    • Voluntary temporal attention recruits frontal regions, beyond the ventral stream, for stimulus amplification.
    • This mechanism may protect target representations from interference by subsequent stimuli.
    • Temporal attention likely employs specialized neural mechanisms for sequential processing.