Paired neuron recordings in the prefrontal and inferotemporal cortices reveal that spatial selection precedes object identification during visual search

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 29, 2010, Pages 13105-13110

  Monosov, Ilya E ^a   Sheinberg, David L ^b   Thompson, Kirk G ^a  

^a NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Cognition; Object recognition; Perception

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; EXPERIMENTAL MONKEY; INFERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CUES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; HAPLORHINI; MALE; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPACE PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77955608577     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1002870107     Document Type: Article

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