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Focal Thalamocortical Rhythms as Indicators of Attentive States in the Cat

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Most of the recent experimental studies on the neurophysiological mechanisms of attention have utilized as a functional index either (in animal investigations) single-unit discharge patterns (e.g. Moran and Desimone 1985; Mountcastle et al. 1987; Spitzer et al. 1988) or some particular components of evoked potentials (mainly in human scalp explorations, e.g. Hillyard 1985), the expected finding being a characteristic response feature when the stimulus is attended as opposed to when it is ignored.

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  1. Institut des Neurosciences, Département de Neurophysiologie comparée, CNRS-UPMC, 9 quai St Bernard, 75005, Paris, France

    J. J. Bouyer, P. Delagrange, M. F. Montaron, A. Rougeul-Buser & P. Buser

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Bouyer, J.J., Delagrange, P., Montaron, M.F., Rougeul-Buser, A., Buser, P. (1990). Focal Thalamocortical Rhythms as Indicators of Attentive States in the Cat. In: Deecke, L., Eccles, J.C., Mountcastle, V.B. (eds) From Neuron to Action. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02601-4_25

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