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Top-down control of visual attention

Noudoost, Behrad, Chang, Mindy H, Steinmetz, Nicholas A, Moore, Tirin·2010·Current Opinion in Neurobiology
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  • Attentional modulation in neural systems is frequently thought to arise from recurrent top-down connections, not from the parallel processing of concurrent inputs.

    “However, this attentional modulation is frequently thought to arise from recurrent top-down connections, not from the parallel processing of concurrent inputs (Noudoost et al. 2010, Bichot et al. 2015).”

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Noudoost, B., Chang, M. H., Steinmetz, N. A., & Moore, T.
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Current Opinion in Neurobiology
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Elsevier BV
Published
2010-04
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20
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2
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183-190
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0959-4388
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10.1016/j.conb.2010.02.003
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PMC2901796
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