On the effects of signal acuity in a multi-alternative model of decision making

Neural Computation

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 539-580

  McMillen, Tyler ^a   Behseta, Sam ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; LETTER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; MENTAL FUNCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REWARD; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MENTAL PROCESSES; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); REWARD; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 77649333012     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: 1530888X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/neco.2009.01-09-938     Document Type: Letter

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