Tactile perception and working memory in rats and humans

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

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2331-2336

  Fassihi, Arash ^a   Akrami, Athena ^a   Esmaeili, Vahid ^a   Diamond, Mathew E ^a,b  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Delayed comparison; Psychophysics; Somatosensory; Vibrissa

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DELAYED COMPARISON; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOMATOSENSORY; VIBRISSA;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TOUCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84893877544     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1315171111     Document Type: Article

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