Inferring decoding strategies from choice probabilities in the presence of correlated variability

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 235-242

  Haefner, Ralf M ^a,b,c   Gerwinn, Sebastian ^a,d,e   MacKe, Jakob H ^a,b,d   Bethge, Matthias ^a,b,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience   (Germany)

^c BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e OFFIS INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84873080341     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3309     Document Type: Article

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