Decision-making, errors, and confidence in the brain

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2359-2374

  Rolls, Edmund T ^a   Grabenhorst, Fabian ^b,d   Deco, Gustavo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CINGULATE GYRUS; DECISION CONFIDENCE; DECISION MAKING; ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROIMAGING; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SMELLING; SPIKE;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; REWARD;

EID: 78049516175     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00571.2010     Document Type: Article

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