A population-coding model of attention's influence on contrast response: Estimating neural effects from psychophysical data

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1144-1153

  Pestilli, Franco ^a,b   Ling, Sam ^b,c   Carrasco, Marisa ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Attention model; Contrast gain; Population coding; Pshychophysics; Response gain

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMODULATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VISUAL FIELD;

ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPHYSICS;

EID: 67349150497     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.09.018     Document Type: Article

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