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Encoding of Spatial Attention by Primate Prefrontal Cortex Neuronal Ensembles

Theda Backen, Stefan Treue and Julio C. Martinez-Trujillo
eNeuro 8 January 2018, 5 (1) ENEURO.0372-16.2017; https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0372-16.2017
Theda Backen
1Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, H3G 1Y6, Canada
2German Primate Center, Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Goettingen, 37077, Germany
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Stefan Treue
2German Primate Center, Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Goettingen, 37077, Germany
3Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Goettingen, 37073, Germany
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Julio C. Martinez-Trujillo
1Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, H3G 1Y6, Canada
4Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, N6A 5B7, Canada
5Department of Physiology & Pharmacology, University of Western Ontario, London, N6A 5B7, Canada
6Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, N6A 5B7, Canada
7Department of Psychiatry, University of Western Ontario, London, N6A 5B7, Canada
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0372-16.2017
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29568798
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History 
  • Received December 14, 2016
  • Revision received November 6, 2017
  • Accepted November 20, 2017
  • Published online January 8, 2018.
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Copyright © 2018 Backen et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.

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  1. Theda Backen1,2,
  2. Stefan Treue2,3 and
  3. Julio C. Martinez-Trujillo1,4,5,6,7
  1. 1Department of Physiology, McGill University, Montreal, H3G 1Y6, Canada
  2. 2German Primate Center, Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Goettingen, 37077, Germany
  3. 3Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Goettingen, 37073, Germany
  4. 4Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, N6A 5B7, Canada
  5. 5Department of Physiology & Pharmacology, University of Western Ontario, London, N6A 5B7, Canada
  6. 6Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, N6A 5B7, Canada
  7. 7Department of Psychiatry, University of Western Ontario, London, N6A 5B7, Canada
  1. Corresponding should be addressed to Julio C. Martinez-Trujillo. E-mail: julio.martinez{at}robarts.ca.
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Author contributions

  1. Author Contributions: T.B., S.T., J.C.M.-T. designed research; T.B. performed research and analyzed data; T.B., S.T., J.C.M.-T. wrote the paper

Disclosures

  • The authors report no conflict of interest.

  • This work was supported by grants from Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada awarded to J.C.M.-T. and a grant to S.T. from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG): Collaborative Research Center 889 “Cellular Mechanisms of Sensory Processing” (Project C04).

Funding

  • Gouvernement du Canada | Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)

  • Gouvernement du Canada | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

  • German Primate Center

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