Pupil-Linked Arousal Determines Variability in Perceptual Decision Making

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Murphy, Peter R ^a   Vandekerckhove, Joachim ^b   Nieuwenhuis, Sander ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; ERGONOMICS;

ACCUMULATION RATES; AROUSAL STATE; DECISION MAKING PARAMETERS; DECISIONS MAKINGS; DISCRIMINATION TASKS; HUMAN SUBJECTS; PERCEPTUAL DECISION MAKING; PUPIL DIAMETER; PUPIL SIZE; SENSITIVE INDEX;

DECISION MAKING;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PUPIL; RANDOM DOT MOTION TASK; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; ADOLESCENT; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PUPIL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907587683     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003854     Document Type: Article

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