Attention modulates contextual influences in the primary visual cortex of alert monkeys

Neuron

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 593-604

  Ito, Minami ^a,b   Gilbert, Charles D ^a,b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0033103652     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0896-6273(00)80713-8     Document Type: Article

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