RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The Normalization Model Captures the Effects of Object-based Attention in the Human Visual Cortex
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 2021.05.21.445228
DO 10.1101/2021.05.21.445228
A1 Narges Doostani
A1 Gholam-Ali Hossein-Zadeh
A1 Maryam Vaziri-Pashkam
YR 2021
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2021/05/23/2021.05.21.445228.abstract
AB Here, we report that normalization model can capture the effects of object-based attention across the visual hierarchy in the human brain. We used superimposed pairs of objects and asked participants to attend to different targets. Modeling voxel responses, we demonstrated that the normalization model outperforms other models in predicting voxel responses in the presence of attention. Our results propose normalization as a canonical computation operating in the primate brain.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.