کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
6203866 1263477 2009 6 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Combined effects of spatial and feature-based attention on responses of V4 neurons
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی سیستم های حسی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Combined effects of spatial and feature-based attention on responses of V4 neurons
چکیده انگلیسی

Attention is thought to be controlled by a specialized fronto-parietal network that modulates the responses of neurons in sensory and association cortex. However, the principles by which this network affects the responses of these sensory and association neurons remains unknown. In particular, it remains unclear whether different forms of attention, such as spatial and feature-based attention, independently modulate responses of single neurons. We recorded responses of single V4 neurons in a task that controls both forms of attention independently. We find that the combined effects of spatial and feature-based attention can be described as the sum of independent processes with a small super-additive interaction term. This pattern of effects demonstrates that the spatial and feature-based aspects of the attentional control system can independently affect responses of single neurons. These results are consistent with the idea that spatial and feature-based attention are controlled by distinct neural substrates whose effects combine synergistically to influence responses of visual neurons.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Vision Research - Volume 49, Issue 10, 2 June 2009, Pages 1182-1187
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