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Jun 2015

Neuronal Modulations in Visual Cortex Are Associated with Only One of Multiple Components of Attention


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Neuroscience

Luo and Maunsell used a specially designed task to show that the only effect of attention in visual cortex is to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of neurons.

Neuronal Modulations in Visual Cortex Are Associated with Only One of Multiple Components of Attention

TZ Luo, JHR Maunsell – Neuron, 2015

See highlight by Timothy J. Buschman:

Paying Attention to the Details of Attention

TJ Buschman – Neuron, 2015

attention, visual cortex

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