Response of neurons in the lateral intraparietal area during a combined visual discrimination reaction time task

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 21, 2002, Pages 9475-9489

  Roitman, Jamie D ^a,b   Shadlen, Michael N ^a,b  

^a Program in Neurobiology and Behavior   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision; Electrophysiology; Lateral intraparietal area (LIP); Psychophysics; Random dot motion; Reaction time; Vision

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SPIKE WAVE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VELOCITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 0036850727     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-21-09475.2002     Document Type: Article

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