Bridging neural and computational viewpoints on perceptual decision-making

RG O'Connell, MN Shadlen, KF Wong-Lin… - Trends in …, 2018 - cell.com
Sequential sampling models have provided a dominant theoretical framework guiding
computational and neurophysiological investigations of perceptual decision-making. While …

Decision-making in a social world: Integrating cognitive ecology and social neuroscience

KJ Wallace, HA Hofmann - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2021 - Elsevier
Understanding animal decision-making involves simultaneously dissecting and
reconstructing processes across levels of biological organization, such as behavior …

[HTML][HTML] Over-representation of fundamental decision variables in the prefrontal cortex underlies decision bias

T Ohnuki, Y Osako, H Manabe, Y Sakurai… - Neuroscience …, 2021 - Elsevier
The brain is organized into anatomically distinct structures consisting of a variety of
projection neurons. While such evolutionarily conserved neural circuit organization …

Low-dimensional encoding of decisions in parietal cortex reflects long-term training history

KW Latimer, DJ Freedman - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Neurons in parietal cortex exhibit task-related activity during decision-making tasks.
However, it remains unclear how long-term training to perform different tasks over months or …

Cortical columns, models of

S Hill - Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience, 2022 - Springer
Introduction Studies of categorical decision-making attempt to understand behavior by
probing how different features of complex and changing environments guide the selection of …

Making decisions through a distributed consensus

P Cisek - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2012 - Elsevier
How does the brain decide between actions? Is it through comparisons of abstract
representations of outcomes or through a competition in a sensorimotor map defining the …

[HTML][HTML] Complementary roles of systems representing sensory evidence and systems detecting task difficulty during perceptual decision making

DA Ruff, S Marrett, HR Heekeren… - Frontiers in …, 2010 - frontiersin.org
Perceptual decision making is a multi-stage process where incoming sensory information is
used to select one option from several alternatives. Researchers typically have adopted one …

On the challenges and mechanisms of embodied decisions

P Cisek, A Pastor-Bernier - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Neurophysiological studies of decision-making have focused primarily on elucidating the
mechanisms of classic economic decisions, for which the relevant variables are the values …

A neural mechanism of speed-accuracy tradeoff in macaque area LIP

T Hanks, R Kiani, MN Shadlen - Elife, 2014 - elifesciences.org
Decision making often involves a tradeoff between speed and accuracy. Previous studies
indicate that neural activity in the lateral intraparietal area (LIP) represents the gradual …

Triple dissociation of attention and decision computations across prefrontal cortex

LT Hunt, WMN Malalasekera, AO de Berker… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Naturalistic decision-making typically involves sequential deployment of attention to choice
alternatives to gather information before a decision is made. Attention filters how information …