Probabilistic reasoning by neurons

Nature

Volumn 447, Issue 7148, 2007, Pages 1075-1080

  Yang, Tianming ^a   Shadlen, Michael N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; PROBABILITY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION; LEARNING; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REWARD; RHESUS MONKEY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

MACACA MULATTA;

EID: 34347347169     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05852     Document Type: Article

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