Nature Communications (Apr 2017)

Spatial working memory alters the efficacy of input to visual cortex

  • Yaser Merrikhi,
  • Kelsey Clark,
  • Eddy Albarran,
  • Mohammadbagher Parsa,
  • Marc Zirnsak,
  • Tirin Moore,
  • Behrad Noudoost

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15041
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Frontal eye field (FEF) is a visual prefrontal area involved in top-down attention. Here the authors report that FEF neurons projecting to V4/MT are persistently active during spatial working memory, and V4/MT neurons show changes in receptive field and gain at the location held in working memory.