Feature-based attention influences motion processing gain in macaque visual cortex

Nature

Volumn 399, Issue 6736, 1999, Pages 575-579

  Treue, Stefan ^a   Martínez Trujillo, Julio C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL VISION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; MACACA; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033542452     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/21176     Document Type: Article

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