Kaleb A. Lowe

The paper introduces an experimental approach to study visual search tasks in macaques using factorial manipulations and systems factorial technology to distinguish processing architectures.

The paper discovers that some frontal eye field neurons develop feature selectivity for stimulus orientation during visual search, revealing distinct operations in target selection for saccade preparation.

The paper uses consensus clustering to identify ten functional categories in macaque frontal eye field neurons, expanding beyond traditional classifications by analyzing spike rate modulation patterns during a memory-guided saccade task.

This study shows prefrontal cortex suppresses salient distractors before their effect is seen in scalp-recorded ERP signals, linking neural activity to distraction control.