The encoding of alternatives in multiple-choice decision making

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 25, 2009, Pages 10308-10313

  Albantakis, Larissa ^a   Deco, Gustavo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Attractor networks; Computational model; Parietal cortex; Random dot motion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOPHYSICS; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE WAVE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; HAPLORHINI; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET;

EID: 67649841879     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0901621106     Document Type: Article

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