Spatial attention and temporal expectation under timed uncertainty predictably modulate neuronal responses in Monkey V1

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2894-2906

  Sharma, Jitendra ^a,b   Sugihara, Hiroki ^a   Katz, Yarden ^a   Schummers, James ^a,c   Tenenbaum, Joshua ^a   Sur, Mriganka ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK FLORIDA INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hazard rate; Neural responses; Reaction time; Top down influences

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; EXPECTATION; FACILITATION; HAPLORHINI; MEASUREMENT; MODULATION; NERVE CELL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; UNCERTAINTY; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BEHAVIOR; CYTOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RHESUS MONKEY; STATISTICS; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; INTENTION; MACACA MULATTA; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; UNCERTAINTY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84983239016     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhu086     Document Type: Article

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