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Does the Superior Colliculus Control Perceptual Sensitivity or Choice Bias during Attention? Evidence from a Multialternative Decision Framework

Devarajan Sridharan, Nicholas A. Steinmetz, Tirin Moore and Eric I. Knudsen
Journal of Neuroscience 18 January 2017, 37 (3) 480-511; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4505-14.2017
Devarajan Sridharan
1Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India,
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Nicholas A. Steinmetz
2Department of Neurobiology and
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Tirin Moore
2Department of Neurobiology and
3Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305
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Eric I. Knudsen
2Department of Neurobiology and
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4505-14.2017
PubMed 
28100734
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History 
  • Received October 30, 2014
  • Revision received July 15, 2016
  • Accepted July 19, 2016
  • First published January 18, 2017.
  • Version of record published January 18, 2017.
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  1. Devarajan Sridharan1,
  2. Nicholas A. Steinmetz2,
  3. Tirin Moore2,3, and
  4. Eric I. Knudsen2
  1. 1Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India,
  2. 2Department of Neurobiology and
  3. 3Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305
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Author contributions

  1. Author contributions: D.S., T.M., and E.I.K. designed research; D.S. and N.A.S. performed research; D.S. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; D.S. analyzed data; D.S., N.A.S., T.M., and E.I.K. wrote the paper.

Disclosures

    • Received October 30, 2014.
    • Revision received July 15, 2016.
    • Accepted July 19, 2016.
  • This work was supported by a Wellcome Trust Department of Biotechnology–India Alliance Fellowship and a Government of India Department of Biotechnology Ramalingaswami Fellowship (to D.S.), a Stanford Mind, Brain and Computation Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (to N.A.S.), National Institutes of Health (NIH) Grant EY014924 (to T.M.) and NIH Grant EY024243 (to E.I.K.). We thank Drs. Richard Krauzlis, Steve Baccus, Surya Ganguli, Roozbeh Kiani, Alireza Soltani, and Patrick Cavanaugh for comments on preliminary versions of this manuscript. We also thank Drs. Lee Lovejoy, Alexandre Zénon, and Richard Krauzlis for sharing with us data from two published studies of superior colliculus inactivation.

  • The authors declare no competing financial interests.

  • Correspondence should be addressed to Devarajan Sridharan, Centre for Neuroscience, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India 560012. sridhar{at}cns.iisc.ernet.in

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Journal of Neuroscience 18 January 2017, 37 (3) 480-511; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4505-14.2017

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Journal of Neuroscience 18 January 2017, 37 (3) 480-511; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4505-14.2017
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