Representation of accumulating evidence for a decision in two parietal areas

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 4306-4318

  de Lafuente, Victor ^a,d   Jazayeri, Mehrdad ^b,d   Shadlen, Michael N ^c,d  

^a INSTITUTO DE NEUROBIOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Howard Hughes Medical Institute Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Kavli Institute and Department of Neuroscience Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; LIP; MIP; Reaches; Saccades; Sensory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; EYE FIXATION; HAND MOVEMENT; INTRAPARIETAL SULCUS; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SENSORY NERVE CELL; VISUAL FIELD; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; EYE MOVEMENT; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TIME FACTOR;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EYE MOVEMENTS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; JUDGMENT; MACACA MULATTA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; PARIETAL LOBE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84924440875     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2451-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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