Abstract
In the present study we examined the influence of object-based attention on the firing rate of neurons in the motion visual areas MTIMST. A macaque monkey was trained to selectively attend one of two superimposed surfaces defined by transparent motion and to discriminate its direction of motion. The results showed that object-based attention modulates the response of direction selective cells in these early visual areas. The presence of this attentional effect demonstrated that the object-based attention influences the early processing of visual motion.
Translated title of the contribution | Visual movement processing in nonhuman primates (Macaca arctoides) is modulated by object-based attention |
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Original language | Spanish |
Pages (from-to) | 389-394 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Revista CNIC Ciencias Biologicas |
Volume | 35 |
Issue number | 3, Supplemento |
Publication status | Published - 2004 |