16 Sep 2013
September 16, 2013

Evidence for differential top-down and bottom-up suppression in posterior parietal cortex

Neuroscience

Mirpour and Bisley recorded neural responses and local field potentials from the lateral intraparietal cortex (LIP) during visual search.  Previously fixated non-target stimuli elicited greater lower frequency (alpha and beta) oscillations.  This suggested that reduced neural responses (and attention) to previously seen stimuli results from oscillatory-based top-down influences from the frontal cortex.

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The Miller Lab uses experimental and theoretical approaches to study the neural basis of the high-level cognitive functions that underlie complex goal-directed behavior. ekmillerlab.mit.edu