视觉注意力：丘脑处于核心地位？

Visual attention: the thalamus at the centre?

作者信息

Rees Geraint

机构信息

Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, 17 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR, UK.

出版信息

Curr Biol. 2009 Mar 10;19(5):R213-4. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.01.011.

DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2009.01.011

PMID:19278639

Abstract

New work shows that spatial attention modulates visual responses of single neurons in monkey thalamus, providing empirical support for a long-standing theoretical prediction that specific thalamic nuclei play a key role in controlling the spotlight of visual attention.

摘要

新的研究表明，空间注意力会调节猴子丘脑单个神经元的视觉反应，为一个长期存在的理论预测提供了实证支持，即特定的丘脑核在控制视觉注意力焦点方面起着关键作用。