Separable codes for attention and luminance contrast in the primary visual cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 38, 2010, Pages 12701-12711

  Pooresmaeili, Arezoo ^a   Poort, Jasper ^a   Thiele, Alexander ^b   Roelfsema, Pieter R ^a,c  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; LUMINANCE; MALE; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; ANIMAL; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RHESUS MONKEY; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 77957197588     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1388-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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