Direct injection of noise to the visual cortex decreases accuracy but increases decision confidence

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 107, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1556-1563

  Rahnev, Dobromir A ^a   Maniscalco, Brian ^a   Luber, Bruce ^b   Lau, Hakwan ^a,c   Lisanby, Sarah H ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Modeling; Perception; Signal detection theory; TMS; Vision

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONFIDENCE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84858182606     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00985.2011     Document Type: Article

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