Attention But Not Awareness Modulates the BOLD Signal in the Human V1 During Binocular Suppression

• DOI: 10.1126/science.1203161
• Publication Date: 2011-11-10T19:44:28Z
• Authors: Masataka Watanabe; Kang Cheng; Yusuke Murayama; Kenichi Ueno; Takeshi Asamizuya; Keiji Tanaka; Nikos Logothetis
• Keywords: Adult; Male; Brain Mapping; 05 social sciences; Awareness; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Oxygen; Young Adult; Visual Perception; Humans; Attention; Female; 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences; Photic Stimulation; Vision, Ocular; Visual Cortex

Activity in the primary visual cortex is modulated by attention to an object, but not by whether the object is visible.