Causal evidence for frontal cortex organization for perceptual decision making

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 21, 2016, Pages 6059-6064

  Rahnev, Dobromir ^a,b   Nee, Derek Evan ^b   Riddle, Justin ^b   Larson, Alina Sue ^b   D'Esposito, Mark ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

FMRI; Frontal cortex; Hierarchy; Perception; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; FRONTAL LOBE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCEPTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84969856767     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1522551113     Document Type: Review

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