Multifocal attention filters targets from distracters within and beyond primate mt neurons' receptive field boundaries

Neuron

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1067-1079

  Niebergall, Robert ^a,b   Khayat, Paul S ^c   Treue, Stefan ^b,d   Martinez Trujillo, Julio C ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d BERNSTEIN CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTRACTIBILITY; MACACA; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL VISUAL AREA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 84155173679     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.10.013     Document Type: Article

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