Time-Varying Perturbations Can Distinguish Among Integrate-to-Threshold Models for Perceptual Decision Making in Reaction Time Tasks

Neural Computation

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2336-2362

  Zhou, Xiang ^a   Wong Lin, Kongfatt ^a   Holmes, Philip ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

INTEGRATION MECHANISMS; MOTOR RESPONSE; ORNSTEIN-UHLENBECK PROCESS; PERCEPTUAL DECISION MAKING; PROTOCOL CANS; REACTION-TIME TASK; SENSORY EVIDENCE; TEMPORAL INTEGRATION; THRESHOLD MODEL; TIME-VARYING PERTURBATIONS;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCRIPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PERCEPTION; PRESCRIPTIONS; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 70249097776     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: 1530888X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/neco.2009.07-08-817     Document Type: Article

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