Turning on the spotlight: Do attention and luminance contrast affect neuronal responses in the same way?

Proulx, Michael J. (2007) Turning on the spotlight: Do attention and luminance contrast affect neuronal responses in the same way? Journal of Neuroscience, 27. pp. 13043-13044.

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Abstract

How strong is the analogy between contrast and attention, and their effects on neuronal response? Lee, Williford and Maunsell (2007) in The Journal of Neuroscience report an important constraint on the similarity between attention and contrast. Contrast and sustained, spatial attention do not impact the latency of neuronal response in the same way. Whether transient attention retains this similarity remains to be seen.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	attention, contrast
Disciplines:	Psychology
Topics:	Attention
Article Type:	Review
ID Code:	381
Deposited By:	Dr. Michael J. Proulx
Deposited On:	09 December 2007

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