A mechanistic cortical microcircuit of attention for amplification, normalization and suppression

Vision Research

Volumn 116, Issue , 2015, Pages 241-257

  Beuth, Frederik ^a   Hamker, Fred H ^a  

^a CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attention models; Biased competition; Contrast vs. response gain; Scaling vs. sharpening of tuning curves; Surround suppression

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICS; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ATTENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84941347631     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2015.04.004     Document Type: Article

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