The effect of attention on neuronal responses to high and low contrast stimuli

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 960-971

  Lee, Joonyeol ^a   Maunsell, John H R ^b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; NERVE CELL; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 77955940089     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01019.2009     Document Type: Article

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