Neurons in early sensory cortex show weak but systematic correlations with perceptual
decisions when trained animals perform at psychophysical threshold. These correlations are …

Highlights•Decision-related activity (choice-probabilities [CPs]) in sensory neurons is widely
found.•Correlated variability in sensory neurons limits information in some cases.•The …

Decision-making behavior has been studied extensively, but the neurophysiological
mechanisms responsible for this remarkable cognitive ability are just beginning to be …

Once considered the province of philosophy and the behavioral sciences, the process of
making decisions has received increasing scrutiny from neurobiologists. Recent research …

Nervous systems extract sensory information from the environment to guide behavior. The
underlying neural mechanisms have been studied extensively, in part by identifying neurons …

During perceptual decisions the activity of sensory neurons covaries with choice, a
covariation often quantified as “choice-probability”. Moreover, choices are influenced by a …

Decisions based on sensory evaluation during single trials may depend on the collective
activity of neurons distributed across brain circuits. Previous studies have deepened our …

A long-standing question in systems neuroscience is how the activity of single neurons gives
rise to our perceptions and actions. Critical insights into this question occurred in the last …

Neuroscience has paid only little attention to decision-making for many years. Although no
field of science has cohered around this topic, a variety of researchers in different areas of …

Responses of individual task-relevant sensory neurons can predict monkeys9 trial-by-trial
choices in perceptual decision-making tasks. Choice-correlated activity has been interpreted …