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Modeling the Temporal Dynamics of IT Neurons in Visual Search: A Mechanism for Top-Down Selective Attention

Usher, Marius, Niebur, Ernst·1996·Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

DOI 10.1162/jocn.1996.8.4.311

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We propose a neural model for object-oriented attention in which various visual stimuli (shapes, colors, letters, etc.) are represented by competing, mutually inhibitory, cell assemblies. The model's response to a sequence of cue and target stimuli mimics the neural responses in infero temporal (IT) visual cortex of monkeys performing a visual search task: enhanced response during the display of the stimulus, which decays but remains above a spontaneous rate after the cue disappears. When, subsequently, a display consisting of the target and several distractors is presented, the activity of all stimulus-driven cells is initially enhanced. After a short period of time, however, the activity of the cell assembly representing the cue stimulus is enhanced while the activity of the distractors decays because of mutual competition and a small top-down “expectational” input. The model fits the measured delayed activity in IT-cortex, recently reported by Chelazzi, Miller, Duncan, and Desimone (1993a), and we suggest that such a process, which is largely independent of the number of distractors, may be used by the visual system for selecting an expected target (appearing at an uncertain location) among distractors.

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Authors: Usher, M., & Niebur, E.
Affiliations: Carnegie Mellon University (US)
California Institute of Technology (US)
ORCID: Usher, Marius
Niebur, Ernst
Venue: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Publisher: MIT Press - Journals
Published: 1996
Volume: 8
Issue: 4
Pages: 311-327
ISSN: 0898-929X (ISSN-L)
1530-8898
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.1996.8.4.311
OpenAlex: W2099555952
Cited by: 147
References: 68
Citations by year: 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 1 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 2
FWCI: 2.83
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Locations: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion)
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 dynamics and brain function
Keywords: visual search, inferotemporal cortex, cell assemblies, reciprocal inhibition, distractor suppression, temporal dynamics of neural responses

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