Neuronal Correlates Of The Set-size Effect In Monkey Lateral Intraparietal Area
Monday, June 30, 2008 - 22:28
in Psychology & Sociology
It is well known that the brain is limited in the amount of sensory information it can process at any given time. During an everyday task such as finding an object in a cluttered environment (known as visual search), observers take longer to find a target as the number of distractors increases. Scientists now show how a higher-order parietal area relates to attention and eye movements.
