The optimality of sensory processing during the speed-accuracy tradeoff

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 7992-8003

  Ho, Tiffany ^a   Brown, Scott ^b   van Maanen, Leendert ^c   Forstmann, Birte U ^c   Wagenmakers, Eric Jan ^c   Serences, John T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BOLD SIGNAL; BOOTSTRAPPING; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINEAR BALLISTIC ACCUMULATOR MODEL; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RESPONSE TIME; REWARD; SENSORY SYSTEM; STRIATE CORTEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

ALGORITHMS; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RETINA; SENSATION; VISUAL CORTEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861852124     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0340-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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