Covert attention increases contrast sensitivity: Psychophysical, neurophysiological and neuroimaging studies. Carrasco, M. Progress in brain research, 154:33--70, 2006. PMID: 17010702
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This chapter focuses on the effect of covert spatial attention on contrast sensitivity, a basic visual dimension where the best mechanistic understanding of attention has been achieved. I discuss how models of contrast sensitivity, as well as the confluence of psychophysical, single-unit recording, and neuroimaging studies, suggest that attention increases contrast sensitivity via contrast gain, an effect akin to a change in the physical contrast stimulus. I suggest possible research directions and ways to strengthen the interaction among different levels of analysis to further our understanding of visual attention.
@article{ carrasco_covert_2006,
  title = {Covert attention increases contrast sensitivity: Psychophysical, neurophysiological and neuroimaging studies},
  volume = {154},
  issn = {0079-6123},
  shorttitle = {Covert attention increases contrast sensitivity},
  url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17010702},
  doi = {10.1016/S0079-6123(06)54003-8},
  abstract = {This chapter focuses on the effect of covert spatial attention on contrast sensitivity, a basic visual dimension where the best mechanistic understanding of attention has been achieved. I discuss how models of contrast sensitivity, as well as the confluence of psychophysical, single-unit recording, and neuroimaging studies, suggest that attention increases contrast sensitivity via contrast gain, an effect akin to a change in the physical contrast stimulus. I suggest possible research directions and ways to strengthen the interaction among different levels of analysis to further our understanding of visual attention.},
  urldate = {2012-09-20},
  journal = {Progress in brain research},
  author = {Carrasco, Marisa},
  year = {2006},
  note = {{PMID:} 17010702},
  keywords = {Action Potentials, Animals, Attention, Brain Mapping, Contrast Sensitivity, Diagnostic Imaging, Humans, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Neurons, Psychophysics, Space Perception, Time Factors, Visual Cortex, Visual Fields},
  pages = {33--70}
}

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