Neural correlates of perceptual decision making before, during, and after decision commitment in monkey frontal eye field

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1052-1067

  Ding, Long ^a   Gold, Joshua I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

motion discrimination; nonhuman primate; oculomotor; prefrontal cortex; saccade

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FRONTAL EYE FIELD; HAPLORHINI; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SENSORY STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REACTION TIME; SACCADES;

EID: 84860180537     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr178     Document Type: Article

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