Internal signal correlates neural populations and biases perceptual decision reports

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

Volumn 109, Issue 46, 2012, Pages 18938-18943

  Carnevale, Federico ^a   De Lafuente, Victor ^b   Romo, Ranulfo ^c,d   Parga, Neśtor ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c EL COLEGIO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^d INSTITUTO DE FISIOLOGÍA CELULAR   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Cortex; Pairwise correlations; Perception; Somatosensory

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; DECISION MAKING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DECISION MAKING; FRONTAL LOBE; MACACA MULATTA; NEURONS; PERCEPTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84869212642     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1216799109     Document Type: Article

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