Reward magnitude coding in primate amygdala neurons

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 104, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3424-3432

  Bermudez, Maria A ^a   Schultz, Wolfram ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FRUIT JUICE; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; DECISION MAKING; FIXATION, OCULAR; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; REWARD;

EID: 78650895530     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00540.2010     Document Type: Article

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