Attention lights up new object representations before the old ones fade away

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 138-142

  Khayat, Paul S ^a,c   Spekreijse, Henk ^a   Roelfsema, Pieter R ^a,b  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention shifts; Contour grouping; Curve tracing; Macaque monkey; Primary visual cortex; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; MACACA; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; MACACA; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 30644478907     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2784-05.2006     Document Type: Article

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