Ignoring the elephant in the room: a neural circuit to downregulate salience.

How do we ignore stimuli that are salient but irrelevant when our task is to select a lower salient stimulus? Since bottom-up processes favor high saliency, detection of a low-salient target in the presence of highly salient distractors requires top-down attentional guidance. Previous studies have d...

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Main Authors: Mevorach, C, Hodsoll, J, Allen, H, Shalev, L, Humphreys, G
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2010