Effect of distracting faces on visual selective attention in the monkey

In primates, visual stimuli with social and emotional content tend to attract attention. Attention might be captured through rapid, automatic, subcortical processing or guided by slower, more voluntary cortical processing. Here we examined whether irrelevant faces with varied emotional expressions i...

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Main Authors: Landman, Rogier (Contributor), Sharma, Jitendra (Contributor), Sur, Mriganka (Contributor), Desimone, Robert (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Contributor), McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT (Contributor), Picower Institute for Learning and Memory (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), 2015-06-15T17:58:49Z.
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