Fig. 1From: Attention to visual motion suppresses neuronal and behavioral sensitivity in nearby feature spaceA Stimulus configuration of Experiment 1. The preferred pattern (always moving in the neuron’s preferred direction) and the tuning pattern (moving in one of 12 directions) were presented within a neuron’s RF. The fixation point was presented on the left side of the display. B Three attentional conditions. While an animal foveated the fixation point, it was cued to attend to either the preferred (attend-preferred) or tuning (attend-tuning) pattern and reported a directional change of the attended pattern. In the fixation condition, the animal was cued to the fixation point and had to report a change in the color of a small square superimposed on the fixation point while ignoring the RDPs. The yellow spot indicates the allocation of attention in each condition. C Responses of two single neurons in different attentional conditions. The abscissa represents the direction of the tuning pattern as a function of the distance to the preferred direction and the ordinate represents the response in spikes/second. Error bars indicate the standard error of the mean (SEM)Back to article page