Decision-making and Weber's law: A neurophysiological model

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 901-916

  Deco, Gustavo ^a   Rolls, Edmund T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attractor networks; Decision making; Integrate and fire neurons; Multistability; Spiking dynamics; Weber's law

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; INTERNEURON; MACACA; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; TOUCH; VIBRATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DECISION MAKING; FEEDBACK; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; TOUCH; VIBRATION;

EID: 33747252187     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.04940.x     Document Type: Article

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