The role of prefrontal cortex in the control of feature attention in area V4

The neural mechanisms underlying feature based attention to targets in a cluttered scene are not well understood. Here, the authors show that inactivation of the ventral prearcuate region leads to deficits in picking out a target among many stimuli as well as eliminates the feature based modulation...

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Main Authors: Narcisse P. Bichot, Rui Xu, Azriel Ghadooshahy, Michael L. Williams, Robert Desimone
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13761-7