Shape-specific preparatory activity mediates attention to targets in human visual cortex

The mechanisms of attention prioritize sensory input for efficient perceptual processing. Influential theories suggest that attentional biases are mediated via preparatory activation of task-relevant perceptual representations in visual cortex, but the neural evidence for a preparatory coding model...

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Main Authors: Stokes, M, Thompson, R, Nobre, A, Duncan, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: National Academy of Science of the USA 2009
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