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The visual attention network untangled

Nature Neuroscience volume 14, pages 542–543 (2011)Cite this article

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Goals are represented in prefrontal cortex and modulate sensory processing in visual cortex. A new study combines TMS, fMRI and EEG to understand how feedback improves retention of behaviorally relevant visual information.

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Figure 1: Outline of the study by Zanto et al.4.

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  1. Sander Nieuwenhuis is at the Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands,

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  2. Tobias H. Donner is in the Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,

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Nieuwenhuis, S., Donner, T. The visual attention network untangled. Nat Neurosci 14, 542–543 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.2812

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