Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

A flexible readout mechanism of human sensory representations

  • Daniel Birman,
  • Justin L. Gardner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11448-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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It is known that attention can modify the brain's representations of sensory stimuli to enhance features of importance. Here, the authors show that flexible readout of cortical representations is also required to explain the behavioral effects of attention.