Temporal dynamics of decision-making during motion perception in the visual cortex

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1345-1373

  Grossberg, Stephen ^a   Pilly, Praveen K ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aperture problem; Basal ganglia; Bayesian inference; Decision making; Diffusion models; Direction discrimination; LIP; Motion capture; Motion perception; MST; MT; Noise saturation dilemma; On center off surround network; Psychometric function; Recurrent competitive field; Shunting model; Speed accuracy trade off; Stochastic decision models; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESPONSE TIME; RETINA; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; SACCADES; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 43449126473     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2008.02.019     Document Type: Article

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