The superficial layers of the primary visual cortex create a saliency map that feeds forward to the parietal cortex

• Chen Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chen Liu, Chengwen Liu

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Science and Mental Health, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Chengwen Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chen Liu, Chengwen Liu

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, Cognition and Human Behavior Key Laboratory of Hunan Province, School of Educational Science, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China

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• Laurentius Huber,

  Roles Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Functional MRI Core, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Li Zhaoping,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Tübingen, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany

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• Peng Zhang

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zhangpeng@ibp.ac.cn

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Science and Mental Health, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9603-8454

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