Prediction of decisions from noise in the brain before the evidence is provided

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MAR, 2011, Pages

  Rolls, Edmund T ^a   Deco, Gustavo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Attractor network; Computational neuroscience; Decision prediction; Decision making; fMRI; Free will; Noise in the brain; Prediction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NEUROIMAGING; NOISE; PREDICTION;

EID: 79959580206     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2011.00033     Document Type: Article

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