Preparatory effects of distractor suppression: evidence from visual cortex.

Spatial selective attention is the mechanism that facilitates the selection of relevant information over irrelevant information in the visual field. The current study investigated whether foreknowledge of the presence or absence of distractors surrounding an impending target stimulus results in prep...

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Main Authors: Jaap Munneke, Dirk J Heslenfeld, W Martin Usrey, Jan Theeuwes, George R Mangun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3229494?pdf=render