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  • 2009Journal Article
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","1619"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","18"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","NeuroReport"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","1624"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","20"],["dc.contributor.author","Rodríguez-Sanchez, Antonio J."],["dc.contributor.author","Tsotsos, John K."],["dc.contributor.author","Treue, Stefan"],["dc.contributor.author","Martinez-Trujillo, Julio C."],["dc.date.accessioned","2017-09-07T11:43:33Z"],["dc.date.available","2017-09-07T11:43:33Z"],["dc.date.issued","2009"],["dc.description.abstract","As we move, the projection of moving objects on our retinas generates an array of velocity vectors known as optic flow. One class of optic flow is spiral motion, defined by the angle between a local vector direction and the direction of the steepest increase in local speed. By discriminating among such angles, an organism could discern between different flow patterns and effectively interact with the environment. In primates, spiral-selective neurons in medial superior temporal area are thought to provide the substrate for this ability. We found that these cells show higher discrimination thresholds than found behaviorally in humans, suggesting that when discriminating spiral motions the brain integrates information across many of these neurons to achieve its high perceptual performance."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1097/wnr.0b013e32833312c7"],["dc.identifier.gro","3151561"],["dc.identifier.pmid","19957382"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/8370"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.notes.submitter","chake"],["dc.relation.issn","0959-4965"],["dc.title","Comparing neuronal and behavioral thresholds for spiral motion discrimination"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","no"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2018Journal Article
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","ENEURO.0372-16.2017"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","1"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","eneuro"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","5"],["dc.contributor.author","Backen, Theda"],["dc.contributor.author","Treue, Stefan"],["dc.contributor.author","Martinez-Trujillo, Julio C."],["dc.date.accessioned","2021-06-01T10:48:21Z"],["dc.date.available","2021-06-01T10:48:21Z"],["dc.date.issued","2018"],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1523/ENEURO.0372-16.2017"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/85909"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","DOI-Import GROB-425"],["dc.relation.eissn","2373-2822"],["dc.title","Encoding of Spatial Attention by Primate Prefrontal Cortex Neuronal Ensembles"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2005Journal Article
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","435"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","5"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","NeuroReport"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","438"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","16"],["dc.contributor.author","Martinez-Trujillo, Julio C."],["dc.contributor.author","Tsotsos, John K."],["dc.contributor.author","Simine, Evgueni"],["dc.contributor.author","Pomplun, Marc"],["dc.contributor.author","Wildes, Richard"],["dc.contributor.author","Treue, Stefan"],["dc.contributor.author","Heinze, Hans-Jochen"],["dc.contributor.author","Hopf, Jens-Max"],["dc.date.accessioned","2017-09-07T11:43:28Z"],["dc.date.available","2017-09-07T11:43:28Z"],["dc.date.issued","2005"],["dc.description.abstract","Cortical area MT/V5 in the human occipito-temporal cortex is activated by visual motion. In this study, we use functional imaging to demonstrate that a subregion of MT/V5 is more strongly activated by unidirectional motion with speed gradients than by other motion patterns. Our results suggest that like the monkey homolog middle temporal area (MT), human MT/V5 contains neurons selective for the processing of speed gradients. Such neurons may constitute an intermediate stage of processing between neurons selective for the average speed of unidirectional motion and neurons selective for different combinations of speed gradient and different motion directions such as expanding optical flow patterns."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1097/00001756-200504040-00004"],["dc.identifier.gro","3151545"],["dc.identifier.pmid","15770147"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/8354"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.notes.submitter","chake"],["dc.relation.issn","0959-4965"],["dc.title","Selectivity for speed gradients in human area MT/V5"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","no"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2003Journal Article
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","R442"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","11"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Current Biology"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","R444"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","13"],["dc.contributor.author","Treue, Stefan"],["dc.contributor.author","Martinez-Trujillo, Julio C."],["dc.date.accessioned","2017-09-07T11:43:29Z"],["dc.date.available","2017-09-07T11:43:29Z"],["dc.date.issued","2003"],["dc.description.abstract","Under natural conditions, shifts of spatial attention are often followed by matching eye movement. Recent evidence suggests that this close coupling is reflected in the ability of the same cortical area to shift eye position and the locus of attention."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1016/s0960-9822(03)00366-x"],["dc.identifier.gro","3151555"],["dc.identifier.pmid","12781154"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/8364"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.notes.submitter","chake"],["dc.relation.issn","0960-9822"],["dc.title","Cognitive Physiology: Moving the Mind's Eye before the Head's Eye"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","no"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2004Journal Article
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","744"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","9"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Current Biology"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","751"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","14"],["dc.contributor.author","Martinez-Trujillo, Julio C."],["dc.contributor.author","Treue, Stefan"],["dc.date.accessioned","2017-09-07T11:43:33Z"],["dc.date.available","2017-09-07T11:43:33Z"],["dc.date.issued","2004"],["dc.description.abstract","Background: Attending to the spatial location or to nonspatial features of visual stimuli can modulate neuronal responses in primate visual cortex. The modulation by spatial attention changes the gain of sensory neurons and strengthens the representation of attended locations without changing neuronal selectivities such as directionality, i.e., the ratio of responses to preferred and anti-preferred directions of motion. Whether feature-based attention acts in a similar manner is unknown.Results: To clarify this issue, we recorded the responses of 135 direction-selective neurons in the middle temporal area (MT) of two macaques to an unattended moving random dot pattern (the distractor) positioned inside a neuron's receptive field while the animals attended to a second moving pattern positioned in the opposite hemifield. Responses to different directions of the distractor were modulated by the same factor (approximately 12%) as long as the attended direction remained unchanged. On the other hand, systematically changing the attended direction from a neuron's preferred to its anti-preferred direction caused a systematic change of the attentional modulation from an enhancement to a suppression, increasing directionality by about 20%.Conclusions: The results show that (1) feature-based attention exerts a multiplicative modulation upon neuronal responses and that the strength of this modulation depends on the similarity between the attended feature and the cell's preferred feature, in line with the feature-similarity gain model, and (2) at the level of the neuronal population, feature-based attention increases the selectivity for attended features by increasing the responses of neurons preferring this feature value while decreasing responses of neurons tuned to the opposite feature value."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1016/j.cub.2004.04.028"],["dc.identifier.gro","3151580"],["dc.identifier.pmid","15120065"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/8391"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.notes.submitter","chake"],["dc.relation.issn","0960-9822"],["dc.title","Feature-Based Attention Increases the Selectivity of Population Responses in Primate Visual Cortex"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","no"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2005Book Chapter
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","425"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","428"],["dc.contributor.author","Martinez-Trujillo, Julio C."],["dc.contributor.author","Treue, Stefan"],["dc.contributor.editor","Itti, Laurent"],["dc.contributor.editor","Rees, Geraint"],["dc.contributor.editor","Tsotsos, John K."],["dc.date.accessioned","2017-09-07T11:43:41Z"],["dc.date.available","2017-09-07T11:43:41Z"],["dc.date.issued","2005"],["dc.description.abstract","Voluntary attention modulates sensory processing in the visual system of primates by multiplying the response of neurons to attended/unattended stimuli. This effect resembles the modulation of neuronal responses caused by varying stimulus contrast. Additionally, attentional and contrast modulation of neuronal responses in monkey cortical area MT share a nonlinearity. Neuronal responses are more strongly modulated by attention and contrast changes for intermediate contrast stimuli than for low and high contrast stimuli. These similarities between attention and contrast suggests that they use similar or closely related mechanisms to modulate visual processing in the cortex."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1016/b978-012375731-9/50074-4"],["dc.identifier.gro","3151607"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/8421"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.notes.submitter","chake"],["dc.publisher","Elsevier"],["dc.relation.isbn","978-0-12375-731-9"],["dc.relation.ispartof","Neurobiology of Attention"],["dc.title","Attentional Modulation of Apparent Stimulus Contrast"],["dc.type","book_chapter"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","no"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2011Journal Article
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","1067"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","6"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Neuron"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","1079"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","72"],["dc.contributor.author","Niebergall, Robert"],["dc.contributor.author","Khayat, Paul S."],["dc.contributor.author","Treue, Stefan"],["dc.contributor.author","Martinez-Trujillo, Julio C."],["dc.date.accessioned","2017-09-07T11:43:28Z"],["dc.date.available","2017-09-07T11:43:28Z"],["dc.date.issued","2011"],["dc.description.abstract","Visual attention has been classically described as a spotlight that enhances the processing of a behaviorally relevant object. However, in many situations, humans and animals must simultaneously attend to several relevant objects separated by distracters. To account for this ability, various models of attention have been proposed including splitting of the attentional spotlight into multiple foci, zooming of the spotlight over a region of space, and switching of the spotlight among objects. We investigated this controversial issue by recording neuronal activity in visual area MT of two macaques while they attended to two translating objects that circumvented a third distracter object located inside the neurons' receptive field. We found that when the attended objects passed through or nearby the receptive field, neuronal responses to the distracter were either decreased or remained unaltered. These results demonstrate that attention can split into multiple spotlights corresponding to relevant objects while filtering out interspersed distracters."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1016/j.neuron.2011.10.013"],["dc.identifier.gro","3151544"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/8353"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.status","public"],["dc.notes.submitter","chake"],["dc.relation.issn","0896-6273"],["dc.title","Multifocal Attention Filters Targets from Distracters within and beyond Primate MT Neurons' Receptive Field Boundaries"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","unknown"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","no"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2022-10-05Journal Article Research Paper
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.artnumber","220"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","1"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","BMC Biology"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","20"],["dc.contributor.author","Yoo, Sang-Ah"],["dc.contributor.author","Martinez-Trujillo, Julio C."],["dc.contributor.author","Treue, Stefan"],["dc.contributor.author","Tsotsos, John K."],["dc.contributor.author","Fallah, Mazyar"],["dc.date.accessioned","2022-10-10T06:17:55Z"],["dc.date.available","2022-10-10T06:17:55Z"],["dc.date.issued","2022-10-05"],["dc.date.updated","2022-10-09T03:11:07Z"],["dc.description.abstract","Abstract\r\n \r\n Background\r\n Feature-based attention prioritizes the processing of the attended feature while strongly suppressing the processing of nearby ones. This creates a non-linearity or “attentional suppressive surround” predicted by the Selective Tuning model of visual attention. However, previously reported effects of feature-based attention on neuronal responses are linear, e.g., feature-similarity gain. Here, we investigated this apparent contradiction by neurophysiological and psychophysical approaches.\r\n \r\n \r\n Results\r\n Responses of motion direction-selective neurons in area MT/MST of monkeys were recorded during a motion task. When attention was allocated to a stimulus moving in the neurons’ preferred direction, response tuning curves showed its minimum for directions 60–90° away from the preferred direction, an attentional suppressive surround. This effect was modeled via the interaction of two Gaussian fields representing excitatory narrowly tuned and inhibitory widely tuned inputs into a neuron, with feature-based attention predominantly increasing the gain of inhibitory inputs. We further showed using a motion repulsion paradigm in humans that feature-based attention produces a similar non-linearity on motion discrimination performance.\r\n \r\n \r\n Conclusions\r\n Our results link the gain modulation of neuronal inputs and tuning curves examined through the feature-similarity gain lens to the attentional impact on neural population responses predicted by the Selective Tuning model, providing a unified framework for the documented effects of feature-based attention on neuronal responses and behavior."],["dc.identifier.citation","BMC Biology. 2022 Oct 05;20(1):220"],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1186/s12915-022-01428-7"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/116162"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.relation.orgunit","Deutsches Primatenzentrum"],["dc.rights","CC BY 4.0"],["dc.rights.holder","The Author(s)"],["dc.subject","Feature-based attention"],["dc.subject","Attentional surround suppression"],["dc.subject","Motion processing"],["dc.subject","Selective Tuning model"],["dc.title","Attention to visual motion suppresses neuronal and behavioral sensitivity in nearby feature space"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.subtype","original_ja"],["dc.type.version","published_version"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2020Journal Article
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","1"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Nature Communications"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","11"],["dc.contributor.author","Mehrpour, Vahid"],["dc.contributor.author","Martinez-Trujillo, Julio C."],["dc.contributor.author","Treue, Stefan"],["dc.date.accessioned","2021-04-14T08:26:47Z"],["dc.date.available","2021-04-14T08:26:47Z"],["dc.date.issued","2020"],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1038/s41467-020-15989-0"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/82073"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.intern","DOI Import GROB-399"],["dc.relation.eissn","2041-1723"],["dc.title","Attention amplifies neural representations of changes in sensory input at the expense of perceptual accuracy"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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  • 2007Journal Article
    [["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","174"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","2"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","Neuron"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","176"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","55"],["dc.contributor.author","Treue, Stefan"],["dc.contributor.author","Martinez-Trujillo, Julio C."],["dc.date.accessioned","2017-09-07T11:43:37Z"],["dc.date.available","2017-09-07T11:43:37Z"],["dc.date.issued","2007"],["dc.description.abstract","Previous studies in monkeys and humans have revealed neural correlates and perceptual consequences of feature-based attention. In this issue of Neuron, two brain-imaging studies from Serences and Boynton and Liu et al. bridge the gap between single neurons and behavior by demonstrating a highly functional attention system that acts on neural representations of our visual world enhancing the processing of the currently attended set of features at the expense of information about less relevant aspects."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1016/j.neuron.2007.07.005"],["dc.identifier.gro","3151584"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/8395"],["dc.language.iso","en"],["dc.notes.status","final"],["dc.notes.submitter","chake"],["dc.relation.issn","0896-6273"],["dc.title","Attending to Features inside and outside the Spotlight of Attention"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","unknown"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","no"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]
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