Attention modulates the responses of simple cells in monkey primary visual cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 47, 2005, Pages 11023-11033

  McAdams, Carrie J ^a   Reid, R Clay ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Cortex; Macaque; Mapping; Receptive field; Striate; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MACACA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION; WHITE NOISE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACACA MULATTA; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 28044443636     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2904-05.2005     Document Type: Article

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