Neural representations of relevant and irrelevant features in perceptual decision making

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 47, 2010, Pages 15778-15789

  Kayser, Andrew S ^a   Erickson, Drew T ^a   Buchsbaum, Bradley R ^b   D'Esposito, Mark ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

^b ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTUAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELECTIVE ATTENTION;

ADULT; COLOR PERCEPTION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; NERVE NET; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 78649436600     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3163-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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