Neural coding and perceptual detection in the primate somatosensory thalamus

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 37, 2012, Pages 15006-15011

  Vaźquez, Yuriria ^a   Zainos, Antonio ^a   Alvarez, Manuel ^a   Salinas, Emilio ^b   Romo, Ranulfo ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTO DE FISIOLOGÍA CELULAR   (Mexico)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c EL COLEGIO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Choice probability; Neurometrics; Psychophysics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TACTILE STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; VIBRATION;

ANIMALS; DECISION MAKING; MACACA MULATTA; MICROELECTRODES; NEURONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; ROC CURVE; THALAMUS; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VENTRAL THALAMIC NUCLEI;

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 84866272313     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1212535109     Document Type: Article

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