Suboptimal integration of reward magnitude and prior reward likelihood in categorical decisions by monkeys

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue NOV, 2010, Pages

  Teichert, Tobias ^a   Ferrera, Vincent P ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Psychometric function; Reward bias; Signal detection theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 83455191433     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2010.00186     Document Type: Article

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