Decoding the influence of anticipatory states on visual perception in the presence of temporal distractors

Anticipation helps to prioritise the processing of task-relevant sensory targets over irrelevant distractors. Here the authors analyse visual EEG responses and show that anticipation may do so by enhancing the neural representation of the target and by delaying the interference caused by distractors...

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Main Authors: Freek van Ede, Sammi R. Chekroud, Mark G. Stokes, Anna C. Nobre
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03960-z