Attention deficits without cortical neuronal deficits

Alexandre Zénon and Richard J. Krauzlis ()
Additional contact information
Alexandre Zénon: Institute of Neuroscience, Université Catholique de Louvain, 1200 Brussels, Belgium
Richard J. Krauzlis: Systems Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10010 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037, USA

Nature, 2012, vol. 489, issue 7416, 434-437

Abstract: Transient inactivation of the superior colliculus in primates during a motion-change-detection task is shown to lead to large deficits in visual attention while the enhanced response of neurons in the visual cortex to attended stimuli remains unchanged; this shows that processes independent of those occurring in the visual cortex have key roles in visual attention.

Date: 2012
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11497 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:nature:v:489:y:2012:i:7416:d:10.1038_nature11497

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/

DOI: 10.1038/nature11497

Access Statistics for this article

Nature is currently edited by Magdalena Skipper

More articles in Nature from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().