Visual Attention and Cortical Circuits

edited by Braun, J., Koch, C. and Davis, J.L.

MIT Press, 2001







 

Contents

 

Overview

Jochen Braun and Christof Koch                                                                          xi- xviii

 

1. Imaging expectations and attentional modulations in the human brain

Maurizio Corbetta and Gordon L.~Shulman                                                                1-24

 

2.  Neuronal correlates of attention in human visual cortex

David J.~Heeger, Sunil P.~Gandhi, Alexander C.~Huk, Geoffrey M.~Boynton    25-48

 

3 Capacity limits in selective attention: behavioral evidence and implications

for neural activity

Nilli Lavie                                                                                                                  49-68

 

4.  Frontal lobe function and the control of visual attention

John Duncan                                                                                                                69-88

 

5.   Attentional modulation of contextual influences

Minami Ito, Gerald Westheimer and Charles D.~Gilbert                                           89-102

 

6.     Effects of attention on the responsiveness and selectivity of individual

neurons in visual cerebral cortex

John H.~R.~Maunsell and Carrie J.~McAdams                                                            103-120           

 

7.   Neural mechanisms of attentional selection

John H.~Reynolds and Robert Desimone                                                                    121-136

 

8.   From attention to action in frontal cortex

Kirk G.~Thompson, Narcisse P.~Bichot, and Jeffrey D.~Schall                                137-158

 

9.  Separating attention from chance in active visual search

Brad C.~Motter and James W.~Holsapple                                                              159-176

 

10.  Two computational models of attention

George Sperling, Adam Reeves, Erik Blaser, Zhong-Lin Lu, and Erich Weichselgartner

                                                                                                                                    177-214

 

11.   Perceptual consequences of multi-level selection

Jochen Braun, Christof Koch, D.~Kathleen Lee, Laurent Itti                               215-242

 

12. The resolution of ambiguous motion: Attentional modulation and development

Shinsuke Shimojo, Katsumi Watanabe, and Christian Scheier                                 243-264

 

13.  The relevance of Fisher information for theories of cortical computation and attention

Alexandre Pouget, Sophie Deneve, and Peter E.~Latham                                              265-284

 

14.   From foundational principles to a hierarchical selection circuit for attention

John K.~Tsotsos, Sean M.~Culhane, Florin Cutzu                                                   285-306