Federal do Pará, 4Instituto Tecnológico Vale Desenvolvimento Sustentável, Belém-Pa, Brazil, 5Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy ...
Enhanced neural processing by covert attention only during microsaccades directed towards the attended stimulus Karthik
1 Srinivasan ,
Eric
1,2 Lowet ,
Bruno
1,3,4 Gomes ,
Huihui
1,5 Zhou ,
Robert John
1 Schafer ,
Robert
1 Desimone
1McGovern
Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA, 3Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, 4Instituto Tecnológico Vale Desenvolvimento Sustentável, Belém-Pa, Brazil, 5Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
This study was supported by NIH EY017292 and EY017921. B. Gomes had a science without borders fellowship-CNPq/CAPES grant (11733/13-6). H. Zhou was supported by National Key R&D Program of China #2017YFC1307500, National Natural Science Foundation of China grant No. 31671108, CAS Hundred Talent program and grant #172644KYSB20160175, Shenzhen grant #JCYJ 20151030140325151, KQTD 20140630180249366, GJHZ 20160229200136090.
During a covert spatial attention task, monkey visual cortical area V4, lateral pulvinar nucleus, and the inferotemporal (IT) cortex were simultaneously recorded using laminar probes
Even in the fixation period during covert attention ( i.e., when both stimulus and cue are present), the animals make microsaccades (MS, defined as
