Responses of pulvinar neurons reflect a subject's confidence in visual categorization

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 749-755

  Komura, Yutaka ^a,b   Nikkuni, Akihiko ^a   Hirashima, Noriko ^a   Uetake, Teppei ^a   Miyamoto, Aki ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; HAPLORHINI; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULVINAR; VISION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; GENICULATE BODIES; MACACA; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PULVINAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84878592253     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3393     Document Type: Article

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