The effect of spatial attention on contrast response functions in human visual cortex.

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Published in J Neurosci on January 03, 2007

Authors

Giedrius T Buracas1, Geoffrey M Boynton

Author Affiliations

1: The Salk Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.

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