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Attentional Modulation in Visual Pathways

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Concepts for Neural Networks

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In the past decade functional neuroimaging has been extremely successful in establishing functional segregation as a principle of organisation in the human brain. The nature of the functional specialisation is attributed to the sensori-motor or cognitive process that has been manipulated experimentally. Newer approaches have introduced a number of concepts into neuroimaging. An experiment that studies the effect of attention on visual pathways is described. The analysis reveals a change in the connectivity of two cortical areas involved in visual motion analysis. A nonlinear modulation of this connectivity by the prefrontal regions is shown.

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  1. The Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology, Institute of Neurology, London, UK

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Kings College, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, UK

    L. J. Landau BSc, MA, PhD

  2. Centre for Neural Networks, Department of Mathematics, Kings College, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, UK

    J. G. Taylor BA, BSc, MA, PhD, FlnstP

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Büchel, C., Friston, K.J. (1998). Attentional Modulation in Visual Pathways. In: Landau, L.J., Taylor, J.G. (eds) Concepts for Neural Networks. Perspectives in Neural Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3427-5_8

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