Attention flexibly alters tuning for object categories
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1Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
|June 13, 2013
Abstract:
Using functional MRI (fMRI) and a sophisticated forward encoding and decoding approach across the cortical surface, a new study examines how attention alternates tuning functions across a large set of semantic categories. The results suggest a dynamic attention mechanism that allocates greater resources to the attended and related semantic categories at the expense of unattended ones.
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