Аннотация:Effective connectivity was studied in a group of 24 right-handed, healthy adults (9 male, 15 female) aged 22 ± 4.75 years during the preparation for task performance in the cued attention, implicit anticipation, and baseline conditions. Participants performed visual and auditory versions of the temporal order judgment task. Alpha-band effective connectivity was assessed by means of the directed transfer function (DTF) computed in the source space for preselected regions of interest (ROI). The results of the present study indicate the top-down influence of the right frontal eye field on the right intraparietal cortex during auditory cued attention. Moreover, a modality-specific influence of the frontal eye field on the primary auditory cortex was observed in the right hemisphere. The analysis of effective connectivity during implicit anticipation showed the influence of the primary visual cortex on the ventral premotor cortex, the intraparietal cortex, and the primary auditory cortex in the left hemisphere for the auditory modality.