Object-based attention in the primary visual cortex of the macaque monkey

Nature

Volumn 395, Issue 6700, 1998, Pages 376-381

  Roelfsema, Pieter R ^a   Lamme, Victor A F ^a   Spekreijse, Henk ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; FIXATION, OCULAR; MACACA; NEURONS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032563929     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/26475     Document Type: Article

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