Out of the spotlight: Face to face with attention

Sabine Kastner; Stephanie A. McMains

doi:10.1038/nn1107-1344

Out of the spotlight: Face to face with attention

Sabine Kastner, Stephanie A. McMains

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Figure-ground segmentation is a key early step in visual perception. A study now finds that V2 neurons in monkeys signal border ownership pre-attentively and that the effects of attention are predicted by the neurons' border preferences.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1344-1345
Number of pages	2
Journal	Nature neuroscience
Volume	10
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1107-1344
State	Published - Nov 2007

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General Neuroscience

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Out of the spotlight: Face to face with attention

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