Spatial Attention Decorrelates Intrinsic Activity Fluctuations in Macaque Area V4

Neuron

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 879-888

  Mitchell, Jude F ^a   Sundberg, Kristy A ^a   Reynolds, John H ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

SIGNALING; SYSBIO; SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MACACA; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; MACACA; NEURONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 70349086073     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2009.09.013     Document Type: Article

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