Attention: control in the visual cortex.
A recent study in which the human visual cortex was directly stimulated to create visual percepts has shown that visual spatial attention can act directly on neural activity in sensory cortex without involving attentional modulation of subcortical visual inputs.
Mangun
George R
GR
Center for Mind and Brain, University of California-Davis, Davis, CA 95618, USA.
Fannon
Sean P
SP
D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D005829:Geniculate Bodies / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D013788:Thalamus / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology; D050781:Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*