Receptive field shift and shrinkage in macaque middle temporal area through attentional gain modulation

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 36, 2008, Pages 8934-8944

  Womelsdorf, Thilo ^a,b   Anton Erxleben, Katharina ^b   Treue, Stefan ^b,c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Area MT; Attention; Gain modulation; Receptive field; Tuning; Visual motion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MODULATION; MONKEY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; ANIMAL; ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN MAPPING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CYTOLOGY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE MOVEMENT; MACACA; NERVE CELL; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPECTROSCOPY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EYE MOVEMENTS; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 54049111106     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4030-07.2008     Document Type: Article

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