Cortical topography of intracortical inhibition influences the speed of decision making

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

Volumn 109, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 3107-3112

  Wilimzig, Claudia ^a   Ragert, Patrick ^b   Dinse, Hubert R ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computational neuroscience; Cortical reorganization; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOPOGRAPHY;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TOUCH;

EID: 84857426327     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1114250109     Document Type: Article

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