A Neural Implementation of Wald's Sequential Probability Ratio Test

Neuron

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 861-873

  Kira, Shinichiro ^a,b   Yang, Tianming ^c   Shadlen, Michael N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; LATERAL INTRAPARIETAL AREA; LOGARITHM OF LIKELIHOOD RATIO; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RESPONSE TIME; RHESUS MONKEY; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; SEQUENTIAL PROBABILITY RATIO TEST; STATISTICAL MODEL; STEREOTYPY; TASK PERFORMANCE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CYTOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); LOGISTIC MODELS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84925594357     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.01.007     Document Type: Article

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