Download or read book Feature-based attention in primate visual cortex written by Philipp Schwedhelm and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scope of this thesis, after a brief summary of the core ideas of top-down attentional control is given (Chapter 2.1), is to shed some light on the cortical control circuit underlying the deployment of feature-based attention. A first study (Chapter 2.2) deduces from human psychophysical performance how an attentional signal acts on a local sensory population of motion-selective neurons. A second empirical study (Chapter 2.3) attempts to identify and characterize resource limitations for the deployment of feature-based attention in macaque monkeys. In particular, the aim of the study was ...