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ECVision indexed and annotated bibliography of cognitive computer vision publications This bibliography was created by Hilary Buxton and Benoit Gaillard, University of Sussex, as part of ECVision Specific Action 8-1 The complete text version of this BibTeX file is available here: ECVision_bibliography.bib R. Desimone Visual attention mediated by biased competition in extrastriate visual cortex ABSTRACT According to conventional neurobiological accounts of visual attention, attention serves to enhance extra- striate neuronal responses to a stimulus at one spatial location in the visual ¢eld. However, recent results from recordings in extrastriate cortex of monkeys suggest that any enhancing e¡ect of attention is best understood in the context of competitive interactions among neurons representing all of the stimuli present in the visual ¢eld. These interactions can be biased in favour of behaviourally relevant stimuli as a result of many di¡erent processes, both spatial and non-spatial, and both bottom-up and top-down. The resolution of this competition results in the suppression of the neuronal representations of behaviourally irrelevant stimuli in extrastriate cortex. A main source of top-down in£uence may derive from neuronal systems underlying working memory.

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