Neural correlates of decision variables in parietal cortex

Nature

Volumn 400, Issue 6741, 1999, Pages 233-238

  Platt, Michael L ^a   Glimcher, Paul W ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; EYE MOVEMENT; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SENSATION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; COLOR PERCEPTION; DECISION MAKING; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; MACACA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURONS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PARIETAL LOBE; PROBABILITY; REWARD;

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 0033566079     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/22268     Document Type: Article

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