Decision-related pupil dilation reflects upcoming choice and individual bias

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

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  De Gee, Jan Willem ^a   Knapen, Tomas ^a,b   Donner, Tobias H ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arousal; Detection; Neuromodulation; Perceptual psychophysics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BRAIN REGION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINEAR SYSTEM; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AROUSAL; DETECTION; NEUROMODULATION; PERCEPTUAL PSYCHOPHYSICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BEHAVIOR; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PUPIL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893457810     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1317557111     Document Type: Article

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