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Frontal eye field: A cortical salience map

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1999

Kirk G. Thompson  and
Narcisse P. Bichot
Kirk G. Thompson
Affiliation:
Vanderbilt Vision Research Center, Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240. kirk.g.thompson@vanderbilt.edunarcisse.p.bichot@vanderbilt.edu
Narcisse P. Bichot
Affiliation:
Vanderbilt Vision Research Center, Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240. kirk.g.thompson@vanderbilt.edunarcisse.p.bichot@vanderbilt.edu
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Abstract

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The concept of a salience map has become important for the development of theories of visual attention and saccade generation. Recent studies have shown that the frontal eye fields have all of the characteristics of a salience map.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , August 1999 , pp. 699 - 700
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© 1999 Cambridge University Press