Attention to Stimulus Features Shifts Spectral Tuning of V4 Neurons during Natural Vision

Neuron

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 509-521

  David, Stephen V ^a   Hayden, Benjamin Y ^a,b   Mazer, James A ^a   Gallant, Jack L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FIXATION, OCULAR; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 48749108278     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2008.07.001     Document Type: Article

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