Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

Saccade-synchronized rapid attention shifts in macaque visual cortical area MT

  • Tao Yao,
  • Stefan Treue,
  • B. Suresh Krishna

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03398-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Saccades result in remapping the neural representation of a target object as well as its attentional modulation. Here the authors show that the trans-saccadic attentional shift is precisely synchronized with the saccade resulting in optimal maintenance of the locus of spatial attention.