Prior information biases stimulus representations during vibrotactile decision making

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 875-887

  Preuschhof, Claudia ^a   Schubert, Torsten ^b   Villringer, Arno ^c   Heekeren, Hauke R ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL BIAS; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; THALAMUS; TOUCH; VIBRATION SENSE;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TOUCH; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VIBRATION;

EID: 77952034328     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21260     Document Type: Article

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