Temporal correlation mechanisms and their role in feature selection: a single-unit study in primate somatosensory cortex.

Studies in vision show that attention enhances the firing rates of cells when it is directed towards their preferred stimulus feature. However, it is unknown whether other sensory systems employ this mechanism to mediate feature selection within their modalities. Moreover, whether feature-based atte...

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Main Authors: Manuel Gomez-Ramirez, Natalie K Trzcinski, Stefan Mihalas, Ernst Niebur, Steven S Hsiao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-11-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4244037?pdf=render