Saccade-synchronized rapid attention shifts in macaque visual cortical area MT

Saccades result in remapping the neural representation of a target object as well as its attentional modulation. Here the authors show that the trans-saccadic attentional shift is precisely synchronized with the saccade resulting in optimal maintenance of the locus of spatial attention.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Tao Yao, Stefan Treue, B. Suresh Krishna
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03398-3