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SUBMITTER: Khayat PS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC515120 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Khayat Paul S PS Spekreijse Henk H Roelfsema Pieter R PR
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20040810 34
We make several eye movements per second when we explore a visual scene. Each eye movement sweeps the scene's projection across the retina and changes its representation in retinotopic areas of the visual cortex, but we nevertheless perceive a stable world. Here we investigate the neuronal correlates of visual stability in the primary visual cortex. Monkeys were trained to make two saccades along a single curve and to ignore another, distracting curve. Attention enhanced neuronal responses to th ...[more]