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Nature Neuroscience 10, 1344 - 1345 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nn1107-1344
Out of the spotlight: face to face with attention
Sabine Kastner1 & Stephanie A McMains1
- The authors are in the Department of Psychology, Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Center for the Study of Brain, Mind & Behavior, Princeton University, Green Hall, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, USA. e-mail: skastner@princeton.edu
Abstract
Figure-ground segmentation is a key early step in visual perception. A study now finds that V2 neurons in monkeys signal border ownership pre-attentively and that the effects of attention are predicted by the neurons' border preferences.
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