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The lateral intraparietal area as a salience map: the representation of abrupt onset, stimulus motion, and task relevance

Year: 2000

Type: article

Abstract: Neurons in the lateral intraparietal area (LIP) of the monkey represent salient stimuli. They respond to recently flashed stimuli that enter their receptive fields by virtue of saccades better than they respond to stable, behaviorally irrelevant stimuli brought into their receptive fields by saccades. They respond transiently to abrupt motion onsets, but have no directional selectivity. They respond to stable stimuli that are the targets for saccadic eye movements, but far less before the same saccades without stimuli. LIP is important in the attentional mechanisms preceding the choice of saccade target rather than in the intention to generate the saccade itself.

Source: Vision Research

DOI: 10.1016/s0042-6989(99)00212-6

Authors: Makoto Kusunoki, Jacqueline Gottlieb, Michael E Goldberg

Institutions: National Institutes of Health, National Eye Institute, University College London, Georgetown University

Language: English

Topic: Visual perception and processing mechanisms

Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience

Field: Neuroscience

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $2,940

Funders: National Eye Institute, NIH Clinical Center