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Marmosets and humans exhibited similar trade-offs in speed versus accuracy: errors were larger and reaction times were longer as the strength of the motion signal was reduced. Reverse correlation on the temporal fluctuations in motion direction revealed that both species exhibited short integration windows; however, marmosets had substantially less nondecision time than humans. Our results provide the first quantification of motion perception in the marmoset and demonstrate several advantages to using analog estimation tasks.</jats:p>","journal":"Cerebral Cortex","year":2020,"id":677889,"datarank":0.40620753016533157,"base_score":2.70805020110221,"endowment":2.70805020110221,"self_citation_contribution":0.40620753016533157,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.40620753016533157,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":14,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1771205,"name":"Jacob L Yates","orcid":null,"position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1771207,"name":"Dina Graf","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1771210,"name":"Gregory C DeAngelis","orcid":null,"position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1771213,"name":"Jude F Mitchell","orcid":null,"position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1771203,"name":"Shaun L Cloherty","orcid":null,"position":0,"is_corresponding":false}],"reference_count":0,"raw_metadata":{"has_enrichment":true,"resolved":true,"title":"Motion Perception in the Common Marmoset","abstract":"<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Visual motion processing is a well-established model system for studying neural population codes in primates. 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