A Source for Feature-Based Attention in the Prefrontal Cortex

In cluttered scenes, we can use feature-based attention to quickly locate a target object. To understand how feature attention is used to find and select objects for action, we focused on the ventral prearcuate (VPA) region of prefrontal cortex. In a visual search task, VPA cells responded selective...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bichot, Narcisse Pascal, Heard, Matthew Thomas, DeGennaro, Ellen, Desimone, Robert
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier/Cell Press 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112248
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5506-6451
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5938-4227