Neural correlates of a decision variable before learning to perform a match/non-match task

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 6161-6169

  Qi, Xue Lian ^a   Meyer, Travis ^a,b   Stanford, Terrence R ^a   Constantinidis, Christos ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; LEARNING; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; DECISION MAKING; LEARNING; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84860139305     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6365-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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