Attention Narrows Position Tuning of Population Responses in V1

Current Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 1356-1361

  Fischer, Jason ^a   Whitney, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NERVE CELL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 68849087970     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.06.059     Document Type: Article

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