Modelling attention in individual cells leads to a system with realistic saccade behaviours

Cognitive Neurodynamics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 223-242

  Lanyon, Linda J ^a,b   Denham, Susan L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Biased competition; Computational model; Saccades; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL SYSTEM;

EID: 69049092751     PISSN: 18714080     EISSN: 18714099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11571-008-9073-x     Document Type: Article

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