Cortico-basal ganglia circuit mechanism for a decision threshold in reaction time tasks

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 956-963

  Lo, Chung Chuan ^a   Wang, Xiao Jing ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE;

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BEHAVIOR; BIOPHYSICS; BRAIN CORTEX; DECISION MAKING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; REWARD; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPIKE; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SYNAPSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BASAL GANGLIA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DECISION MAKING; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PRIMATES; REACTION TIME; SACCADES;

EID: 33745540875     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1722     Document Type: Article

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