Evolution, risk, and neural representation

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1128, Issue , 2008, Pages 8-12

  Watson, Karli K ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Foraging, uncertainty; Macaques; Von Economo neurons

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN RECEPTOR;

BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DECISION MAKING; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREDATION RISK; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRODUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STARVATION; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA; MACACA;

EID: 43249097217     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1399.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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