TY - JOUR AU - Veith, Vera Katharina AU - Quigley, Cliodhna AU - Treue, Stefan PY - 2021 DA - 2021/03/16 TI - Cholinergic manipulations affect sensory responses but not attentional enhancement in macaque MT JO - BMC Biology SP - 49 VL - 19 IS - 1 AB - Attentional modulation in the visual cortex of primates is characterized by multiplicative changes of sensory responses with changes in the attentional state of the animal. The cholinergic system has been linked to such gain changes in V1. Here, we aim to determine if a similar link exists in macaque area MT. While rhesus monkeys performed a top-down spatial attention task, we locally injected a cholinergic agonist or antagonist and recorded single-cell activity. SN - 1741-7007 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-00993-7 DO - 10.1186/s12915-021-00993-7 ID - Veith2021 ER -