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Attentional Control of Visual Perception: Cortical and Subcortical Mechanisms
Abstract
Given the properties of muscles (and the laws of physics), it is obviously not possible to direct the eyes or move an arm to more than one object at a time. What may not be so obvious is that neither is it possible to fully process or store in memory more than one or two visual stimuli in a single moment. In this sense, memory and muscles are very much alike. Thus, neurobiologists working in both sensory and motor systems must confront the problem of selective attention, i.e., how the brain selects which of the many images typically stimulating the retina will be the target for an eye movement or will have access to memory at a given moment. It is an interesting question whether these attentional mechanisms are the same mechanisms for both sensory and motor systems, and we address this later in this paper.
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“Neurons in the pulvinar exhibit features of selective attention; as they respond more strongly to behaviourally relevant stimuli than to unattended stimuli [48], as such, they contribute to top-down suppression of distractors [49].”
From Cerebral hierarchies: predictive processing, precision and the pulvinar (2015) · cites this paper as [49]
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Metadata
- Authors
- Desimone, R., Wessinger, M., Thomas, L., & Schneider, W.
- Affiliations
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- ORCID
- Desimone, R.
- Venue
- Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology
- Publisher
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
- Published
- 1990-01-01
- Volume
- 55
- Issue
- 0
- Pages
- 963-971
- ISSN
- 0091-7451 (ISSN-L)
- 1943-4456
- OpenAlex
- W2053886595
- Cited by
- 235
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- Type
- posted content
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Office of Naval Research
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- selective attention, visual perception, attentional control, eye movements, visual memory, cortical mechanisms, subcortical mechanisms
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Attention, Macaca, Models, Neurological, Superior Colliculi, Visual Cortex, Visual Perception
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