Tuning curve shift by attention modulation in cortical neurons: A computational study of its mechanisms

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 761-778

  Compte, Albert ^a,b   Wang, Xiao Jing ^b  

^a MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational model; Feedforward network; Receptive field; Recurrent network; Selective attention; Sensory adaptation; Spotlight

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CORTEX; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TUNING CURVE; VISION; VISUAL ADAPTATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 33646857917     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhj021     Document Type: Article

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