Attention to the color of a moving stimulus modulates motion-signal processing in macaque area mt: Evidence for a unified attentional system

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue OCT, 2009, Pages

  Katzner, Steffen ^a,b,c   Busse, Laura ^a,b,c   Treue, Stefan ^a,b,c  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention; Color; Middle temporal area MT; Motion; Neuronal representation; Visual objects

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649418047     PISSN: 16625137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.06.012.2009     Document Type: Article

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