Full reaction time distributions reveal the complexity of neural decision-making

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1948-1951

  Noorani, Imran ^a   Carpenter, R H S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision; Latency; Modelling; Saccade

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVITY; DECISION MAKING; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; OCULOMOTOR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REACTION TIME; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 79958028324     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07727.x     Document Type: Article

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