Waiting is the hardest part: Comparison of two computational strategies for performing a compelled-response task

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Salinas, Emilio ^a   Shankar, Swetha ^a   Costello, M Gabriela ^a   Zhu, Dantong ^a   Stanford, Terrence R ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Choice; Computational modeling; Decision making; Discrimination; Mental chronometry; Race to threshold; Reaction time; Saccade

Indexed keywords

CHOICE; COMPUTATIONAL MODELING; DISCRIMINATION; MENTAL CHRONOMETRY; RACE-TO-THRESHOLD; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL;

DECISION MAKING; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMAN REACTION TIME;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HAPLORHINI; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STRATEGIC PLANNING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

EID: 79958251596     PISSN: 16625188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2010.00153     Document Type: Article

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