Visual attention mediated by biased competition in extrastriate visual cortex

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 353, Issue 1373, 1998, Pages 1245-1255

  Desimone, Robert ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Inferior temporal cortex; Primates; V4; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; HAPLORHINI; PRIMATES;

EID: 0032578297     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1998.0280     Document Type: Article

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