Perceptual Learning and Decision-Making in Human Medial Frontal Cortex

Neuron

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 549-559

  Kahnt, Thorsten ^a,b   Grueschow, Marcus ^a,c,d   Speck, Oliver ^d   Haynes, John Dylan ^a,b,c,d  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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

^d OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEDIAL FRONTAL CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL CORTEX; PERCEPTUAL LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79955650440     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.02.054     Document Type: Article

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