Neuromodulation of attention

A Thiele, MA Bellgrove - Neuron, 2018‏ - cell.com
Attention is critical to high-level cognition and attention deficits are a hallmark of neurologic
and neuropsychiatric disorders. Although years of research indicates that distinct …

Correlations and neuronal population information

A Kohn, R Coen-Cagli, I Kanitscheider… - Annual review of …, 2016‏ - annualreviews.org
Brain function involves the activity of neuronal populations. Much recent effort has been
devoted to measuring the activity of neuronal populations in different parts of the brain under …

Alpha and gamma oscillations characterize feedback and feedforward processing in monkey visual cortex

T Van Kerkoerle, MW Self, B Dagnino… - Proceedings of the …, 2014‏ - pnas.org
Cognitive functions rely on the coordinated activity of neurons in many brain regions, but the
interactions between cortical areas are not yet well understood. Here we investigated …

[HTML][HTML] Arousal and locomotion make distinct contributions to cortical activity patterns and visual encoding

M Vinck, R Batista-Brito, U Knoblich, JA Cardin - Neuron, 2015‏ - cell.com
Spontaneous and sensory-evoked cortical activity is highly state-dependent, yet relatively
little is known about transitions between distinct waking states. Patterns of activity in mouse …

Neuronal mechanisms of visual attention

JHR Maunsell - Annual review of vision science, 2015‏ - annualreviews.org
Advances on several fronts have refined our understanding of the neuronal mechanisms of
attention. This review focuses on recent progress in understanding visual attention through …

The mechanics of state-dependent neural correlations

B Doiron, A Litwin-Kumar, R Rosenbaum… - Nature …, 2016‏ - nature.com
Simultaneous recordings from large neural populations are becoming increasingly common.
An important feature of population activity is the trial-to-trial correlated fluctuation of spike …

Top-down control of visual attention by the prefrontal cortex. Functional specialization and long-range interactions

S Paneri, GG Gregoriou - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2017‏ - frontiersin.org
The ability to select information that is relevant to current behavioral goals is the hallmark of
voluntary attention and an essential part of our cognition. Attention tasks are a prime …

Suppressing feedback signals to visual cortex abolishes attentional modulation

SR Debes, V Dragoi - Science, 2023‏ - science.org
Attention improves perception by enhancing the neural encoding of sensory information. A
long-standing hypothesis is that cortical feedback projections carry top-down signals to …

Priority coding in the visual system

NC Rust, MR Cohen - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2022‏ - nature.com
Although we are continuously bombarded with visual input, only a fraction of incoming visual
events is perceived, remembered or acted on. The neural underpinnings of various forms of …

State dependence of noise correlations in macaque primary visual cortex

AS Ecker, P Berens, RJ Cotton, M Subramaniyan… - Neuron, 2014‏ - cell.com
Shared, trial-to-trial variability in neuronal populations has a strong impact on the accuracy
of information processing in the brain. Estimates of the level of such noise correlations are …