Nature Neuroscience 9, 984 - 985 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nn0806-984
Neurons that know when to quitJeremy M Wolfe
Jeremy M. Wolfe is at the Brigham and Women's Hospital Visual Attention Laboratory, Harvard University, 64 Sidney Street, Suite 170, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. wolfe@search.bwh.harvard.edu
With sufficient training, monkeys as well as people can be taught to ignore visually salient stimuli. Now Ipata and colleagues report that activity in monkey lateral intraparietal cortex (LIP) correlates with this ability to ignore salient stimuli, suggesting that activity in this area represents top-down modulation that adjusts visual salience.
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