Prefrontal contributions to metacognition in perceptual decision making

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 6117-6125

  Fleming, Stephen M ^a,b   Huijgen, Josefien ^a   Dolan, Raymond J ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AWARENESS; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860352128     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6489-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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