Spatial and feature-based attention in a layered cortical microcircuit model

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Wagatsuma, Nobuhiko ^a,b   Potjans, Tobias C ^c,d,e   Diesmann, Markus ^b,d   Sakai, Ko ^f   Fukai, Tomoki ^b,d,g  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^d RIKEN   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^g JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN CELL; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; NERVE CELL; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PROBABILITY; RECEPTIVE FIELD; STRIATE CORTEX; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

ATTENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84891923706     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080788     Document Type: Article

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