title: Attention flexibly alters tuning for object categories.
abstract: Using functional MRI (fMRI) and a sophisticated forward encoding and decoding approach across the cortical surface, a new study examines how attention alternates tuning functions across a large set of semantic categories. The results suggest a dynamic attention mechanism that allocates greater resources to the attended and related semantic categories at the expense of unattended ones.
authors.affiliation: Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
authors.forename: Jiye G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Sabine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kastner
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012660:Semantics; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*