Attentional suppression of activity in the human visual cortex

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-412522
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.41252

Smith, A. T. ; Singh, K. D. ; Greenlee, Mark W.

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Abstract

We have used fMRI to examine the nature of the changes that occur in the human visual cortex when an observer attends to a particular location in the visual image. Previous studies have shown that the magnitude of the response to a visual stimulus is increased when the observer attends to the stimulus. We show that, in addition, attention to a particular location results in a widespread ...