Posterior parietal cortex guides visual decisions in rats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 37, Issue 19, 2017, Pages 4954-4966

  Licata, Angela M ^a   Kaufman, Matthew T ^a   Raposo, David ^a,b   Ryan, Michael B ^c   Sheppard, John P ^d,e   Churchland, Anne K ^a  

^a Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

^b University of California ^*  (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making

Indexed keywords

CHANNELRHODOPSIN 2; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; CRANIOTOMY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; POSTERIOR PARIETAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VIRUS EXPRESSION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL CORTEX; ANIMAL; HEARING; LONG EVANS RAT; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PARIETAL LOBE; PHYSIOLOGY; REWARD; VISION;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DECISION MAKING; MALE; NERVE NET; PARIETAL LOBE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REWARD; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 85018915544     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0105-17.2017     Document Type: Article

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