Topic: neuronal noise correlations

Visual search involves scanning the surroundings to find objects of interest amidst a clutter of irrelevant distractors. A commonly accepted theory proposes that pop out visual search is governed by a winner-take-all (WTA) competition between contextually modulated cells that form a saliency map. Yet, research indicates that WTA's capacity to gather information even from large populations, has limitations, casting doubt on its role in pop out visual search. In our investigation, we performed a modeling study to assess the accuracy of WTA in detecting the distinctive object in a pop out task. W