Trial-to-trial, uncertainty-based adjustment of decision boundaries in visual categorization

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 50, 2013, Pages 20332-20337

  Qamar, Ahmad T ^a   Cotton, R James ^a   George, Ryan G ^a   Beck, Jeffrey M ^b   Prezhdo, Eugenia ^a   Laudano, Allison ^a   Tolias, Andreas S ^a   Ma, Wei Ji ^a,c  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Decision making; Optimality; Vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; HAPLORHINI; HUMAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNCERTAINTY; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84890287562     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1219756110     Document Type: Article

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