Neurobiology, Psychophysics, and Computational Models of Visual Attention

The purpose of this workshop was to discuss both recent experimental findings and computational models of the neurobiological implementation of selective attention. Recent experimental results were presented in two of the four presentations given (C.E. Connor, Washington University and B.C. Motter, SUNY and V.A. Medical Center, Syracuse), while the other two talks were devoted to computational models (E. Connor presented the results of an experiment in which the receptive field profiles of V 4 neurons were mapped during different states of attention in an awake, behaving monkey. The attentional focus was manipulated in this experiment by altering the position of a behaviorally relevant ring-shaped stimulus.