To understand the neural mechanisms that support decision making, it is critical to
characterize the timescale of evidence evaluation. Recent work has shown that subjects can …

A large body of work has identified characteristic neural signatures of value-based decision-
making. A core circuit has been shown to track the values of options under consideration …

Organisms live in a dynamic environment in which sensory information from multiple
sources is ever changing. A conceptually complex task for the organisms is to accumulate …

Perceptual decisions arise from the activity of neurons distributed across brain circuits. But,
decoding the mechanisms behind this cognitive operation across brain circuits has long …

To choose between options, we must solve two important binding problems. First, the
features that determine each options' values must be appropriately combined and kept …

The ability to flexibly select and accumulate relevant information to form decisions, while
ignoring irrelevant information, is a fundamental component of higher cognition. Yet its …

Which meal would you like today, chicken or pasta? For such value-based choices,
organisms must flexibly integrate various types of sensory information about internal states …

The aim of statistical decision theories is to understand how evidence, prior knowledge, and
values lead an organism to commit to one of a number of alternatives. Two main statistical …

To date it has been unclear whether perceptual decision making and rule-based
categorization reflect activation of similar cognitive processes and brain regions. On one …

Previous research suggests that people evaluate options in at least two ways:(1) appraising
their overall value and (2) choosing between them. Here we test whether these processes …