Attention and Biased Competition in Multi-voxel Object Representations

The biased-competition theory accounts for attentional effects at the single-neuron level: It predicts that the neuronal response to simultaneously-presented stimuli is a weighted average of the response to isolated stimuli, and that attention biases the weights in favor of the attended stimulus. Pe...

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Main Authors: Reddy, Leila (Author), Kanwisher, Nancy (Contributor), VanRullen, Rufin (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Contributor), McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), 2012-04-13T17:31:47Z.
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