Spatial attention enhances object coding in local and distributed representations of the lateral occipital complex

Matthias Guggenmos, Volker Thoma, John-Dylan Haynes, Alan Richardson-Klavehn, Radoslaw Martin Cichy, Philipp Sterzer

Abstract: Highlights•Attentional modulation of voxel-level activity increases with object tuning.•Attention increases mutual information between voxel responses and object identity.•Attention increases information content and reproducibility of activation patterns.•Pattern effects linked to local increase of mutual information but not neural gain.