A probabilistic strategy for understanding action selection

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2340-2355

  Kim, Byounghoon ^a   Basso, Michele A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; INTROSPECTION; MODEL; MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SIMULATION; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; MACACA MULATTA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEURONS; SACCADES; SUPERIOR COLLICULI;

EID: 76649083879     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1730-09.2010     Document Type: Article

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