Spatial summation can explain the attentional modulation of neuronal responses to multiple stimuli in area V4

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 5115-5126

  Ghose, Geoffrey M ^a,b   Maunsell, John H R ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Facilitation; Receptive field; Spatial cognition; Summation; Suppression; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEPTH PERCEPTION; MACACA; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REWARD;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REWARD; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 44949206508     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0138-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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