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Attention Score in Context
| Title |
Normalization and the Cholinergic Microcircuit: A Unified Basis for Attention
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, March 2018
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| DOI | 10.1016/j.tics.2018.02.011 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Taylor W Schmitz, John Duncan |
| Abstract |
Attention alters three key properties of population neural activity - firing rate, rate variability, and shared variability between neurons. All three properties are well explained by a single canonical computation - normalization - that acts across hierarchically integrated brain systems. Combining data from rodents and nonhuman primates, we argue that cortical cholinergic modulation originating from the basal forebrain closely mimics the effects of directed attention on these three properties of population neural activity. Cholinergic modulation of the cortical microcircuit underlying normalization may represent a key biological basis for the rapid and flexible changes in population neuronal coding that are required by directed attention. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 31 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 4 | 13% |
| United States | 2 | 6% |
| Israel | 1 | 3% |
| France | 1 | 3% |
| Australia | 1 | 3% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 3% |
| Canada | 1 | 3% |
| Norway | 1 | 3% |
| Japan | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 17 | 55% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 23 | 74% |
| Scientists | 5 | 16% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 6% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 149 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 149 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 34 | 23% |
| Researcher | 28 | 19% |
| Student > Master | 16 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 13 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 8 | 5% |
| Other | 28 | 19% |
| Unknown | 22 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Neuroscience | 49 | 33% |
| Psychology | 25 | 17% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 15 | 10% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 6 | 4% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 3% |
| Other | 13 | 9% |
| Unknown | 37 | 25% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 19. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 June 2020.
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#1,957,333
of 25,382,440 outputs
Outputs from Trends in Cognitive Sciences
#1,042
of 2,292 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#42,012
of 347,572 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Trends in Cognitive Sciences
#25
of 38 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,382,440 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 92nd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,292 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 42.8. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 54% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 347,572 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done well, scoring higher than 87% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 38 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one is in the 34th percentile – i.e., 34% of its contemporaries scored the same or lower than it.