Neural correlates, computation and behavioural impact of decision confidence

Nature

Volumn 455, Issue 7210, 2008, Pages 227-231

  Kepecs, Adam ^a   Uchida, Naoshige ^a,b   Zariwala, Hatim A ^a,c   Mainen, Zachary F ^a,d  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN SCIENCE   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BRAIN; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; NEUROLOGY; ODOR; RODENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BRAIN; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; ODOR; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DECISION MAKING; FRONTAL LOBE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; ODORS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REWARD; SMELL; UNCERTAINTY;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 51649116802     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07200     Document Type: Article

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