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Friday, July 03, 2009

Memory and decision making in the frontal cortex during visual motion processing for smooth pursuit eye movements.

9 Jun 2009 Cortical motor areas are thought to contribute "higher-order processing," but what that processing might include is unknown. Previous studies of the smooth pursuit-related discharge of supplementary eye field (SEF) neurons have not distinguished ... Read more...

V4 activity predicts the strength of visual short-term memory representations.

8 Jun 2009 Recent studies have shown the existence of a form of visual memory that lies intermediate of iconic memory and visual short-term memory (VSTM), in terms of both capacity (up to 15 items) and the duration of the memory trace (up to 4 s). Because new ... Read more...

Firing patterns in superior colliculus of head-unrestrained monkey during normal and perturbed gaze saccades reveal short-latency feedback and a sluggish rostral shift in activity.

Jun 2009 The superior colliculus (SC) encodes a saccade via the spatial position of an ensemble of active neurons on its motor map. Downstream circuits control muscles with the temporal code of firing frequency and duration. The moving hill hypothesis ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Attention'

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• Memory and decision making in the frontal cortex during visual motion processing for smooth pursuit eye movements. 9 Jun 2009
• V4 activity predicts the strength of visual short-term memory representations. 8 Jun 2009
• Firing patterns in superior colliculus of head-unrestrained monkey during normal and perturbed gaze saccades reveal short-latency feedback and a sluggish rostral shift in activity. Jun 2009
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• Mindfulness in Thailand and the United States: a case of apples versus oranges? 30 May 2009
• The integration of mindfulness and psychology. 30 May 2009
• An empirical study of the mechanisms of mindfulness in a mindfulness-based stress reduction program. 30 May 2009
• The effects of the transcendental meditation program on mindfulness. 30 May 2009
• I think therefore I om: cognitive distortions and coping style as mediators for the effects of mindfulness meditation on anxiety, positive and negative affect, and hope. 30 May 2009
• High-frequency, long-range coupling between prefrontal and visual cortex during attention. 27 May 2009
• Short-latency influence of medial frontal cortex on primary motor cortex during action selection under conflict. 25 May 2009
• Multisensory integration in the superior colliculus requires synergy among corticocollicular inputs. 18 May 2009
• Which cue to "want?" Central amygdala opioid activation enhances and focuses incentive salience on a prepotent reward cue. 18 May 2009
• Anterior cingulate neurons represent errors and preparatory attention within the same behavioral sequence. 18 May 2009
• Natural, metaphoric, and linguistic auditory direction signals have distinct influences on visual motion processing. 18 May 2009
• How attention affects border ownership in early visual areas. 18 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Attention'

Definition: Focusing on certain aspects of current experience to the exclusion of others. It is the act of heeding or taking notice or concentrating.

Descriptor UI: D001288

Alternative terms: Attention; Attentions; Concentration; Concentrations;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F02.830.104.214;