Psychology and neurobiology of simple decisions

Trends in Neurosciences

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 161-168

  Smith, Philip L ^a   Ratcliff, Roger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CELL STIMULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EYE MOVEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL; NEUROBIOLOGY; NOISE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; RESPONSE TIME; REVIEW; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT;

EID: 1342343030     PISSN: 01662236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2004.01.006     Document Type: Review

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