A Role for Neural Integrators in Perceptual Decision Making

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1257-1269

  Mazurek, Mark E ^a   Roitman, Jamie D ^a   Ditterich, Jochen ^a   Shadlen, Michael N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; MONKEY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SENSORY STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; WORKING MEMORY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HAPLORHINI; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0142219854     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhg097     Document Type: Review

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