Economic value biases uncertain perceptual choices in the parietal and prefrontal cortices

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Summerfield, Christopher ^a,b   Koechlin, Etienne ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Bias; Computational modeling; fMRI; Parietal cortex; Perceptual decision making; Prefrontal cortex; Reward

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY FEEDBACK; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL BIAS; DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NOISE; PARIETAL CORTEX; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 79953010345     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2010.00208     Document Type: Article

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