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Sorting the wheat from the chaff in visual perception

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De Weerd and colleagues provide direct evidence that some parts of extrastriate visual cortex may be required for attentional stimulus selection.

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Figure 1: Connection map of macaque visual cortex.
Figure 2: Two important stimulus configurations used by De Weerd and colleagues.

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