Ventral premotor cortex neuronal activity matches perceptual decisions

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2338-2348

  Acuña, Carlos ^a   Pardo Vazquez, Jose L ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Choices; Decision making; Monkeys; Ventral premotor cortex

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EYE TRACKING; HAPLORHINI; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EYE MOVEMENTS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79959334172     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07708.x     Document Type: Article

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