To See Is to Attend

3 January 2003

journal article
editorial
Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science

Vol. 299 (5603) , 54-56
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1080668

Abstract

The ability of the primate brain to encode visual stimuli requires that the organism also pay attention. In his Perspective, Yantis discusses new work (Bisley and Goldberg) that identifies the parietal lobes of the primate brain as the region responsible for generating a map depicting where attention is focused during vision.

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