Human Attention to a Particular Portion of an Image Alters the
Way the Brain Processes Visual Cortex Responses to That Image
Our ability to ignore some, but not other stimuli, allows us to
focus our attention and improve our performance on a specific
task. The ability to respond to visual stimuli during a visual
task hinges on altered brain processing of responses within the
visual cortex at the back of the brain, where visual information
is first received from the eyes. How this occurs was recently
demonstrated by an international team of researchers led by
Justin Gardner at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Wako.
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