Probing perceptual decisions in rodents

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 824-831

  Carandini, Matteo ^a   Churchland, Anne K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTERIOR CINGULATE; BRAIN CORTEX; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; OVEREXERTION; PERCEPTION; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIMARY AUDITORY CORTEX; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REVIEW; RODENT; SECONDARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SECONDARY VISUAL CORTEX; SENSATION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FEEDBACK; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DECISION MAKING; MICE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RATS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84879634595     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3410     Document Type: Review

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