Vision: stimulating your attention.
Attentional selection biases the processing of higher visual areas to particular parts of a scene. Recent experiments show how stimulation of neurons in the frontal eye fields can mimic this process.
Kayser
Christoph
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MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Spemannstrasse 38, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany.
Logothetis
Nikos
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D000818:Animals; D001288:Attention; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000502:physiology*; D000882:Haplorhini; D006801:Humans; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D014794:Visual Fields / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*