Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Experiment Videos

Activity in primary visual cortex predicts performance in a visual detection task.

D Ress1, B T Backus, D J Heeger

  • 1Stanford University, Dept. of Psychology, 450 Serra Mall, Bldg. 420/400, Stanford, California 94305-2130, USA.

Nature Neuroscience
|August 31, 2000
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

Related Concept Videos

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

Uninformative visual experience establishes long term perceptual bias.

Vision research·2010
Same author

Perceiving slant about a horizontal axis from stereopsis.

Journal of vision·2003
Same author

Neuronal basis of the motion aftereffect reconsidered.

Neuron·2001
Same author

Human cortical activity correlates with stereoscopic depth perception.

Journal of neurophysiology·2001
Same author

Representing retinal image speed in visual cortex.

Nature neuroscience·2001
Same author

Measurement and modeling of center-surround suppression and enhancement.

Vision research·2001
Same journal

Connectomic evidence that ordered activity drives neuromuscular network formation.

Nature neuroscience·2026
Same journal

Noninvasive decoding of typed sentences from human brain activity.

Nature neuroscience·2026
Same journal

Striatal control of amygdalar acetylcholine release during salience-associated processing.

Nature neuroscience·2026
Same journal

Mitochondrial stress response drives microglial senescence.

Nature neuroscience·2026
Same journal

Conditioned accumbal dopamine transients forecast individual preference for drug versus natural rewards and compulsive behavior.

Nature neuroscience·2026
Same journal

The mitochondrial unfolded protein response in human microglia disrupts neuronal-glial communication and promotes senescence.

Nature neuroscience·2026
See all related articles

Visual attention modulates neural activity in the early visual cortex (V1, V2, V3). This attention-related brain activity predicts behavioral performance in pattern detection tasks.

Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Science
  • Visual Perception

Background:

  • Visual attention significantly impacts human neural activity and behavior.
  • Understanding the neural underpinnings of attention is crucial for explaining cognitive processes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To quantify the relationship between neural activity in early visual cortex and behavioral performance.
  • To investigate the role of stimulus-independent activity in visual attention.

Main Methods:

  • Measured neural activity in early visual cortex (V1, V2, V3) during a demanding pattern-detection task.
  • Correlated neural activity with subject performance in discerning stimulus patterns.

Main Results:

  • A significant stimulus-independent neural response was observed in early visual areas.

Related Experiment Videos

  • This neural activity quantitatively predicted behavioral accuracy in the pattern-detection task.
  • Higher attention-related activity correlated with improved performance.

    • Conclusions:

    • Attentional mechanisms directly modulate neural activity in the early visual cortex.
    • This attention-modulated neural activity is a key factor influencing task performance.
    • Findings suggest a direct link between attention, neural processing, and behavioral outcomes.