Choosing the rules: Distinct and overlapping frontoparietal representations of task rules for perceptual decisions

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 29, 2013, Pages 11852-11862

  Zhang, Jiaxiang ^a   Kriegeskorte, Nikolaus ^a   Carlin, Johan D ^a   Rowe, James B ^a,b,c  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BOLD SIGNAL; DECISION MAKING; EVOKED RESPONSE; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84880426517     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5193-12.2013     Document Type: Article

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