Selective disinhibition: A unified neural mechanism for predictive and post hoc attentional selection

Vision Research

Volumn 116, Issue , 2015, Pages 194-209

  Sridharan, Devarajan ^a,b   Knudsen, Eric I ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Attention mechanisms; Computational models; Dynamical systems; Noise correlations; Post hoc selection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMORY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POST HOC ATTENTIONAL SELECTION; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RESPONSE TIME; SELECTIVE DISINHIBITION; STIMULATION; SYNAPSE; ASSOCIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ATTENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CUES; HUMANS; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84946553666     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: 18785646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2014.12.010     Document Type: Article

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