title: Paying Attention to the Details of Attention.
abstract: Attention selects behaviorally relevant stimuli for greater neural representation. In this issue of Neuron, Luo and Maunsell (2015) show that attention acts, in part, by boosting the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of sensory neurons.
authors.affiliation: Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544, USA. Electronic address: tbuschma@princeton.edu.
authors.forename: Timothy J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Buschman
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D005074:Evoked Potentials, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology*