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. 2007 Nov 28;27(48):13043-4.
doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4378-07.2007.

Turning on the spotlight: do attention and luminance contrast affect neuronal responses in the same way?

Michael J Proulx  1
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Turning on the spotlight: do attention and luminance contrast affect neuronal responses in the same way?

Michael J Proulx. J Neurosci. .
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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
This is a depiction of the proposed free-viewing visual search task to examine the impact of transient attention on the latency of neuronal responses. The search target is an upright or upside-down U, and the animal is to report the orientation of the target (cf. Oristaglio et al., 2006). With the example set size of six as shown, the U target would also be the brightest stimulus on one of six trials (A), and a nontarget would be the brightest on five of six trials (B), to render the brightness of the stimuli irrelevant for the search task.
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