Interactions between attention, context and learning in primary visual cortex

Vision Research

Volumn 40, Issue 10-12, 2000, Pages 1217-1226

  Gilbert, Charles ^a   Ito, Minami ^b   Kapadia, Mitesh ^a   Westheimer, Gerald ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contextual influences; Perceptual learning; Primary visual cortex; Receptive fields; Visuospatial attention

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FACILITATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; HUMANS; LEARNING; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033996040     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(99)00234-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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