Lumping and splitting the neural circuitry of visual attention.
Shifts of gaze and of covert attention rely on tightly linked yet divergent neural mechanisms. In this issue of Neuron, Gregoriou et al. (2012) provide interesting evidence that different functional classes of neurons within the frontal eye field contribute uniquely to these two functions.
Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
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