Reaction time changes with the hazard rate for a behaviorally relevant event when monkeys perform a delayed wrist movement task

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 433, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 152-157

  Tsunoda, Yoshiaki ^a   Kakei, Shinji ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anticipation; Foreperiod; Hazard rate; Reaction time; Timing; Wrist movement

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; KINEMATICS; LIMB MOVEMENT; MACACA; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; WRIST;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CUES; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); MACACA FASCICULARIS; MOVEMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBABILITY; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; WRIST;

EID: 39649099977     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.12.063     Document Type: Article

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