Perception of categories: From coding efficiency to reaction times

Brain Research

Volumn 1434, Issue , 2012, Pages 47-61

  Bonnasse Gahot, Laurent ^a   Nadal, Jean Pierre ^a,b  

^a ÉCOLE DES HAUTES ÉTUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Categorization; Discrimination; Mutual information; Optimal decoding; Population coding; Reaction times

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; CELL ACTIVITY; CODING; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONFERENCE PAPER; DECISION MAKING; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL TASK; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84856596007     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2011.08.014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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