Decision-making with multiple alternatives

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 693-702

  Churchland, Anne K ^a   Kiani, Roozbeh ^a   Shadlen, Michael N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EYE MOVEMENTS; HAPLORHINI; MOTION; NEURONS; PARIETAL LOBE; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 44349161769     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2123     Document Type: Article

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