Paying Attention to the Details of Attention

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jun 2015 English Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:Neuron, volume 86, pages 1,111-1,113 (issn: 0896-6273,

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Authors: Buschman, Timothy J.;

doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.05.031

pmid: 26050029

Paying Attention to the Details of Attention

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Abstract

Attention selects behaviorally relevant stimuli for greater neural representation. In this issue of Neuron, Luo and Maunsell (2015) show that attention acts, in part, by boosting the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of sensory neurons.

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Male, Neurons, Neuroscience(all), Animals, Evoked Potentials, Visual, Attention, Psychomotor Performance, Visual Cortex

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