The Influence of Spatiotemporal Structure of Noisy Stimuli in Decision Making

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Insabato, Andrea ^a   Dempere Marco, Laura ^a   Pannunzi, Mario ^a   Deco, Gustavo ^a,b   Romo, Ranulfo ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE FISIOLOGÍA CELULAR   (Mexico)

^d EL COLEGIO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

BEHAVIORAL LEVEL; CELLULAR LEVELS; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; DAILY LIVES; DECISIONS MAKINGS; NEURAL MECHANISMS; PERCEPTUAL DECISION MAKING; PERFORMANCE; PLAUSIBLE MODEL; SPATIO-TEMPORAL STRUCTURES;

DECISION MAKING;

ARTICLE; ATTRACTOR NEURAL NETWORK; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COMPUTER MODEL; DECISION MAKING; DRIFT DIFFUSION MODEL; EXPERIMENTATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL STRUCTURE; TASK PERFORMANCE; HUMAN; THEORETICAL MODEL;

DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NOISE;

EID: 84901298826     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003492     Document Type: Article

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