Noise correlations have little influence on the coding of selective attention in area V1

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 543-553

  Poort, Jasper ^a   Roelfsema, Pieter R ^a,b  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attention; Discrimination; Neural coding; Noise correlation; Vision; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXCITABILITY; MONKEY; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; ELECTRICITY; HAPLORHINI; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 59749100371     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn103     Document Type: Article

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