Combining spatial and feature-based attention within the receptive field of MT neurons

Vision Research

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1188-1193

  Patzwahl, Dieter R ^a   Treue, Stefan ^b,c  

^a MULTI CHANNEL SYSTEMS MCS GMBH   (Germany)

^b GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^c BERNSTEIN CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Feature based attention; Macaque monkey; Transparent random dot patterns; Visual cortex; Visual motion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MACACA; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; MACACA; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 67349207376     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.04.003     Document Type: Article

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