To See Is to Attend

The ability of the primate brain to encode visual stimuli requires that the organism also pay attention. In his Perspective, [Yantis][1] discusses new work ([Bisley and Goldberg][2]) that identifies the parietal lobes of the primate brain as the region responsible for generating a map depicting where attention is focused during vision. [1]: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/299/5603/54 [2]: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/299/5603/81

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