Revisiting the evidence for collapsing boundaries and urgency signals in perceptual decision-making

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2476-2484

  Hawkins, Guy E ^a   Forstmann, Birte U ^b   Wagenmakers, Eric Jan ^b   Ratcliff, Roger ^c   Brown, Scott D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Diffusion model; Human; Nonhuman primate; Response time

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; RHESUS MONKEY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIMULATION; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922553168     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2410-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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