[Verse 1] Nineteen eighty-eight, a needle traced a mind, Gnadt and Andersen watched the neuron bide its time, Eyes held still but the cell kept humming on, A memory of "there" long after "there" was gone, Delay activity, a ghost of where to glance, LIP was holding targets in a silent trance. [Chorus] It's a priority map, drawn in grey and white, Bottom-up glitter meets the top-down light, Salience whispers, goals come shout, LIP decides what winning looks about, Not just looking, not just will, A parietal ledger, keeping score until The eyes agree to spill. [Verse 2] Ninety-two in Science, Duhamel took the stage, Colby and Goldberg turned a flinching eye to page, Receptive fields that jump before the gaze arrives, Remapping早 the future so the picture still survives, A whisper called corollary discharge makes the call, From colliculus through thalamus, the message hits it all, Through MD it travels, lands in frontal eye field's door, So the world won't jitter when the retina moves once more. [Chorus] It's a priority map, drawn in grey and white, Bottom-up glitter meets the top-down light, Salience whispers, goals come shout, LIP decides what winning looks about, Not just looking, not just will, A parietal ledger, keeping score until The eyes agree to spill. [Verse 3] Gottlieb, Kusunoki, Goldberg, ninety-eight, Found the steady object only mattered once made great, Task-relevance the spark that woke the dozing cell, Salience alone won't ring the neural bell, Then Bisley and Goldberg, oh-three, laid the proof, Population patterns tracked attention like a sleuth, Timed it to the millisecond, charted where it fell, The crowd of firing neurons rang attention's bell. [Verse 4] Twenty-ten, the Annual Review drew the frame, Bisley and Goldberg gave the priority map its name, Salience plus purpose, mixed in a single stew, One map to rank the candidates and tell the eye what's true. [Bridge] Wardak, Olivier, Duhamel, two-thousand-four, Silenced LIP neurons, watched the deficit soar, Searching cluttered scenes turned into a fog, While simple single saccades barely missed a jog, So the map serves searching more than just the jump, Attention's throne, not intention's only pump, Snyder, Batista, Andersen felt the old debate, PRR for reaching, LIP for the ocular gate, Effector-specific signals, parallel and true, Two plans competing for the very same view. [Outro] So remember LIP, the map that ranks the scene, Salience and purpose, weaving in between, Remapped before you move, salient when it's due, A priority map keeping order inside you.
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