Neural circuit dynamics underlying accumulation of time-varying evidence during perceptual decision making

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 1, Issue NOV, 2007, Pages

  Wong, Kong Fatt ^a   Huk, Alexander C ^b   Shadlen, Michael N ^c   Wang, Xiao Jing ^d  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attractor network; Computational modeling; Intraparietal cortex; Reaction time; Visual motion discrimination

Indexed keywords

ATTRACTOR NETWORKS; BEHAVIORAL OBSERVATION; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; INTRAPARIETAL CORTEX; NEURONAL RESPONSE; PERCEPTUAL DECISION MAKING; TIME VARYING SIGNAL; VISUAL MOTION;

DECISION MAKING; HUMAN REACTION TIME; INTEGRATION; NEURONS; VISION;

TIME VARYING NETWORKS;

EID: 84882833313     PISSN: 16625188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.10/006.2007     Document Type: Article

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