Recurrent antitopographic inhibition mediates competitive stimulus selection in an attention network

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 793-805

  Lai, Dihui ^a   Brandt, Sebastian ^a   Luksch, Harald ^b   Wessel, Ralf ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FOREBRAIN; ISTHMIC ORGANIZER; MESENCEPHALON; OPTIC TECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; TECTUM; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ATTENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79951825505     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00673.2010     Document Type: Article

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