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SUBMITTER: Klink PC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9992771 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Klink P Christiaan PC Teeuwen Rob R M RRM Lorteije Jeannette A M JAM Roelfsema Pieter R PR
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20230222 9
During visual search, it is important to reduce the interference of distracting objects in the scene. The neuronal responses elicited by the search target stimulus are typically enhanced. However, it is equally important to suppress the representations of distracting stimuli, especially if they are salient and capture attention. We trained monkeys to make an eye movement to a unique "pop-out" shape stimulus among an array of distracting stimuli. One of these distractors had a salient color that ...[more]