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Now you see it: frontal eye field responses to invisible targets

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Neurons in the frontal eye field respond even when a visual target is perceptually masked, but small variations in their activity predicts whether a monkey will respond to the stimulus.

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Figure 1: Stimuli for the backward-masking protocol.

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