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SUBMITTER: White BJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5286207 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
White Brian J BJ Berg David J DJ Kan Janis Y JY Marino Robert A RA Itti Laurent L Munoz Douglas P DP
Nature communications 20170124
Models of visual attention postulate the existence of a saliency map whose function is to guide attention and gaze to the most conspicuous regions in a visual scene. Although cortical representations of saliency have been reported, there is mounting evidence for a subcortical saliency mechanism, which pre-dates the evolution of neocortex. Here, we conduct a strong test of the saliency hypothesis by comparing the output of a well-established computational saliency model with the activation of neu ...[more]