New advances in understanding decisions among multiple alternatives

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 920-926

  Churchland, Anne K ^a   Ditterich, Jochen ^b  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION;

EID: 84878176564     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: 18736882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2012.04.009     Document Type: Review

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