Dopamine neurons code subjective sensory experience and uncertainty of perceptual decisions

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 49, 2011, Pages 19767-19771

  De Lafuente, Victor ^a   Romo, Ranulfo ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE FISIOLOGÍA CELULAR   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Decision making; Detection; Perception; Somatosensory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; DECISION MAKING; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY EVALUATION; TACTILE STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CUES; DOPAMINERGIC NEURONS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MACACA MULATTA; MESENCEPHALON; REWARD; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 83755207201     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1117636108     Document Type: Article

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