Choosing Goals, Not Rules: Deciding among Rule-Based Action Plans

Neuron

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 536-548

  Klaes, Christian ^a,b   Westendorff, Stephanie ^a,b   Chakrabarti, Shubhodeep ^b   Gail, Alexander ^a,b  

^a Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience   (Germany)

^b GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; GOAL ATTAINMENT; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CUES; GOALS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; NEURONS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 79955667808     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.02.053     Document Type: Article

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