Shape-specific preparatory activity mediates attention to targets in human visual cortex
Stokes M, Thompson R, Nobre A, Duncan J. Shape-specific preparatory activity mediates attention to targets in human visual cortex. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2009, 106: 19569-19574. PMID: 19887644, PMCID: PMC2772815, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0905306106.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAttentional biasVisual cortexMultivoxel pattern analysisTask-relevant representationsFunctional neuroimaging dataEfficient perceptual processingMechanisms of attentionPreparatory activityModel of attentionTop-down attentionTarget-specific modulationTesting core assumptionsNeural evidencePreparatory attentionAttention trialsPerceptual processingPerceptual representationsAttentional cuesNeuroimaging dataPerceptual performanceBaseline activityCortexInfluential theoryHuman visual cortexCompetition bias
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