Linking neural activity to complex decisions

Visual Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 5-6, 2013, Pages 331-342

  Hayden, Benjamin ^a   Pasternak, Tatiana ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Choice probability; Decision making; Prefrontal cortex; Reward; Working memory

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; MOTION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; REWARD; SENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); GYRUS CINGULI; HAPLORHINI; MOTION PERCEPTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REWARD; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84896510967     PISSN: 09525238     EISSN: 14698714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0952523813000345     Document Type: Review

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