Role of the superior colliculus in choosing mixed-strategy saccades

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1998-2008

  Thevarajah, Dhushan ^a   Mikulić, Areh ^a   Dorris, Michael C ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decision; Game theory; Macaque; Motor intention; Nash equilibrium; Neuroeconomics; Reinforcement; Reward; Saccade

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPETITION; COMPUTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; GAME; MALE; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FIXATION, OCULAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GAME THEORY; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REWARD; SACCADES; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VOLITION;

EID: 60849128525     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4764-08.2009     Document Type: Article

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