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SUBMITTER: Nandy A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6391072 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nandy Anirvan A Nassi Jonathan J JJ Jadi Monika P MP Reynolds John J
eLife 20190222
Deployment of covert attention to a spatial location can cause large decreases in low-frequency correlated variability among neurons in macaque area V4 whose receptive-fields lie at the attended location. It has been estimated that this reduction accounts for a substantial fraction of the attention-mediated improvement in sensory processing. These estimates depend on assumptions about how population signals are decoded and the conclusion that correlated variability impairs perception, is purely ...[more]