Touch and go: Decision-making mechanisms in somatosensation

Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue , 2001, Pages 107-137

  Romo, R ^a   Salinas, E ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE FISIOLOGÍA CELULAR   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Attention; Categorization; Cortical microstimulation; Discrimination; Somatosensory cortex; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ATTENTION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY RECEPTOR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DECISION MAKING; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; PERCEPTION; RECEPTORS, SENSORY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH;

EID: 0034916427     PISSN: 0147006X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.neuro.24.1.107     Document Type: Review

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