Is attentional blink a byproduct of neocortical attractors?

This study proposes a computational model for attentional blink or blink of the mind, a phenomenon where a human subject misses perception of a later expected visual pattern as two expected visual patterns are presented less than 500 ms apart. A neocortical patch modeled as an attractor network is s...

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Main Authors: David N Silverstein, Anders eLansner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fncom.2011.00013/full