Attention stabilizes the shared gain of V4 populations

eLife

Volumn 4, Issue NOVEMBER2015, 2015, Pages

  Rabinowitz, Neil C ^a   Goris, Robbe L ^a   Cohen, Marlene ^b   Simoncelli, Eero P ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; MODEL; NOISE; POPULATION MODEL; REWARD; SENSORY NERVE CELL; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; VISUAL AREA V4; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HAPLORHINI; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; HAPLORHINI; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PERCEPTION; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS;

EID: 84957829411     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.08998     Document Type: Article

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