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From: Attention to visual motion suppresses neuronal and behavioral sensitivity in nearby feature space

Fig. 1

A 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)

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