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Descending Control of Neural Bias and Selectivity in a Spatial Attention Network: Rules and Mechanisms Neuron (September 2014), doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2014.08.019 by Shreesh P. Mysore, Eric I. Knudsen
@article{mysore-and-knudsen-2014,
    author = {Mysore, Shreesh P. and Knudsen, Eric I.},
    citeulike-article-id = {13364542},
    citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2014.08.019},
    doi = {10.1016/j.neuron.2014.08.019},
    issn = {08966273},
    journal = {Neuron},
    keywords = {attention, biology, sc, sc-connectivity},
    month = sep,
    posted-at = {2014-09-16 11:36:40},
    priority = {2},
    title = {Descending Control of Neural Bias and Selectivity in a Spatial Attention Network: Rules and Mechanisms},
    url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2014.08.019},
    year = {2014}
}

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Mysore and Knudsen say that deep SC neurons respond to relative saliency of a stimulus, i.e. to the saliency of stimuli in their receptive fields compared to the saliency of stimuli outside their receptive fields.⇒

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