The cost of accumulating evidence in perceptual decision making

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3612-3628

  Drugowitsch, Jan ^a,c   Moreno Bote, Rubé N ^b,c   Churchland, Anne K ^d   Shadlen, Michael N ^e   Pouget, Alexandre ^c,f  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b PARC SANITARI SANT JOAN DE DÉU   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^d Cold Spring Harbor ^*  (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATERAL INTRAPARIETAL AREA; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; REWARD; SENSE OF COHERENCE; STIMULUS;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84858011816     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4010-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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