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Preparatory attention incorporates contextual expectations
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2021
bioRxiv
pre-print
Humans are remarkably proficient at finding objects within a complex visual world. Current theories of attentional selection propose that this ability is mediated by target-specific preparatory activity in visual cortex, biasing visual processing in favor of the target object. In real-world situations, however, the retinal image that any object will produce is unknown in advance; its size, for instance, varies dramatically with the object's distance from the observer. Using fMRI, we show that
doi:10.1101/2021.10.17.464696
fatcat:srvdmbg4xfeotayxwhui4ehxca