Evidence accumulator or decision threshold which cortical mechanism are we observing?

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue JUN, 2012, Pages

  Simen, Patrick ^a  

^a OBERLIN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Accumulator; Decision; Integration; Reward; Sequence; Switch; Threshold

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867124437     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00183     Document Type: Article

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