Lumping and splitting the neural circuitry of visual attention

Nicholas A Steinmetz; Tirin Moore

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2012.01.011

Lumping and splitting the neural circuitry of visual attention

Neuron. 2012 Feb 9;73(3):410-2. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.01.011.

Authors

Nicholas A Steinmetz¹, Tirin Moore

Affiliation

¹ Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.

PMID: 22325195
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.01.011

Abstract

Shifts of gaze and of covert attention rely on tightly linked yet divergent neural mechanisms. In this issue of Neuron, Gregoriou et al. (2012) provide interesting evidence that different functional classes of neurons within the frontal eye field contribute uniquely to these two functions.

Publication types

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MeSH terms

Action Potentials / physiology*
Animals
Attention / physiology*
Male
Neurons / physiology*
Visual Cortex / cytology*
Visual Cortex / physiology*
Visual Fields / physiology*

Grants and funding

R01 EY014924/EY/NEI NIH HHS/United States