Highlights•We introduce a framework in which the thalamus controls functional connectivity
within and across cortical areas.•Thalamic control of cortical connectivity can occur without …

To make adaptive decisions, organisms must appropriately filter sensory inputs, augmenting
relevant signals and suppressing noise. The prefrontal cortex (PFC) partly implements this …

Primate visual cortex consists of dozens of distinct brain areas, each providing a highly
specialized component to the sophisticated task of encoding the incoming sensory …

Perception and action are tightly coupled: visual responses at the saccade target are
enhanced right before saccade onset. This phenomenon, presaccadic attention, is a form of …

The normalization model has been applied to explain neural activity in diverse neural
systems including primary visual cortex (V1). The model's defining characteristic is that the …

Spatial integration of visual information is an important function in the brain. However, neural
computation for spatial integration in the visual cortex remains unclear. In this study, we …

Attention is believed to enhance perception by altering the activity-level correlations
between pairs of neurons. How attention changes neuronal activity correlations is unknown …

Visual neurons respond more vigorously to an attended stimulus than an unattended one.
How the brain prepares for response gain in anticipation of that stimulus is not well …

Although spatial and feature attention have differing effects on neuronal responses in visual
cortex, it remains unclear why. Response normalization has been implicated in both types of …

Spatial attention improves perception of attended parts of a scene, a behavioral
enhancement accompanied by modulations of neuronal firing rates. These modulations vary …