Attention

John H. Reynolds; Jacqueline P. Gottlieb; Sabine Kastner

doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-385870-2.00046-9

Attention

John H. Reynolds, Jacqueline P. Gottlieb, Sabine Kastner

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Abstract

This chapter describes the neural mechanisms of attention in the human and non-human primate, and how attention improves perception. Topics include spatial- and feature-based attention, the network of areas that are thought to control the allocation of attention, and ways in which attention modulates neuronal signals within parts of the brain involved in visual processing, including modulation of neuronal firing rates as well as recent evidence that attention also improves sensory processing by reducing the correlated variability of neuronal responses.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Fundamental Neuroscience
Subtitle of host publication	Fourth Edition
Publisher	Elsevier Inc.
Pages	989-1007
Number of pages	19
ISBN (Electronic)	9780123858719
ISBN (Print)	9780123858702
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-385870-2.00046-9
State	Published - Jan 1 2013

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General Medicine

Keywords

Decorrelation
Feature-based attention
Fronto-parietal
Gain
Human
Macaque
Spatial attention
Vision

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