ArticleNeuron2012
Tuned normalization explains the size of attention modulations.
Article in Neuron, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 75 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
75 citing papers in PubMed.
- Modulation of Visual Contrast Perception Associated With Dorsal Attention Network Connectivity Assessed by Magnetoencephalography.Human brain mapping · 2026Article
- A shared multi-feature population code for sensory reliability across mouse visual cortex.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Not simply two sides of the same coin: Target enhancement and distractor suppression draw on independent neural mechanisms.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2026Article
- Working Memory of Multi-Object Scenes in Primate Frontal Cortex.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Article
- Neuronal heterogeneity of normalization strength in a circuit model.Science advances · 2026Article
- Neuronal normalization in monkey MT is an intensity-weighted average.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Mechanisms of Neural Representation and Segregation of Multiple Spatially Separated Visual Stimuli.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Gamma-band synchronization between neurons in the visual cortex is causal for effective information processing and behavior.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Neuronal normalization in monkey MT is an intensity-weighted average.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Control Principles of Neural Dynamics Revealed by the Neurobiology of Timing.Annual review of neuroscience · 2025Review
- hMT+ activity predicts the effect of spatial attention on surround suppression.Journal of vision · 2025Article
- Article
- The role of binocular disparity and attention in the neural representation of multiple moving stimuli in the visual cortex.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Attention Modulates Human Visual Responses to Objects by Tuning Sharpening.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Review
- Pathway-selective optogenetics reveals the functional anatomy of top-down attentional modulation in the macaque visual cortex.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Neural encoding of multiple motion speeds in visual cortical area MT.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Attention preserves the selectivity of feature-tuned normalization.Journal of neurophysiology · 2023Article
- Increments in visual motion coherence are more readily detected than decrements.Journal of vision · 2023Article
15 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
Abstract
The effect of attention on firing rates varies considerably within a single cortical area. The firing rate of some neurons is greatly modulated by attention while others are hardly affected. The reason for this variability across neurons is unknown. We found that the variability in attention modulation across neurons in area MT of macaques can be well explained by variability in the strength of tuned normalization across neurons. The presence of tuned normalization also explains a striking asymmetry in attention effects within neurons: when two stimuli are in a neuron's receptive field, directing attention to the preferred stimulus modulates firing rates more than directing attention to the nonpreferred stimulus. These findings show that much of the neuron-to-neuron variability in modulation of responses by attention depends on variability in the way the neurons process multiple stimuli, rather than differences in the influence of top-down signals related to attention.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.