Vacillation, indecision and hesitation in moment-by-moment decoding of monkey motor cortex

eLife

Volumn 4, Issue MAY, 2015, Pages

  Kaufman, Matthew T ^a,b,c   Churchland, Mark M ^d   Ryu, Stephen I ^a,e   Shenoy, Krishna V ^a,b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

^d Department of Medicine   (United States)

^e PALO ALTO MEDICAL FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; EVOKED RESPONSE; EYE FIXATION; HAPLORHINI; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; T-MAZE TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; COGNITION; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; MALE; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RHESUS MONKEY; UNCERTAINTY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONS; REACTION TIME; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84930676163     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.04677     Document Type: Article

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