▪ Abstract Over the past two decades significant progress has been made toward
understanding the neural basis of primate decision making, the biological process that …

Tracing the neural circuitry of decision formation is a critical step in the understanding of
higher cognitive function. To make a decision, the primate brain coordinates dynamic …

Imagine the decisions you might make while playing a simple game like 'matching pennies'.
At each play, you and your opponent, say the mathematician John vonNeumann, each lay …

Seattle, Washington 98195 known to encode the sensory variables that govern performance
in discrimination tasks (reviewed by Parker and Newsome, 1998). Can such neurons teach …

The neural mechanism underlying simple perceptual decision-making in monkeys has been
recently conceptualized as an integrative process in which sensory evidence supporting …

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

In natural behavior, animals have access to multiple sources of information, but only a few of
these sources are relevant for learning and actions. Beyond choosing an appropriate action …

Decision theory proposes that humans and animals decide what to do in a given situation by
assessing the relative value of each possible response. This assessment can be computed …

At every moment, the natural world presents animals with two fundamental pragmatic
problems: selection between actions that are currently possible and specification of the …

A decision is a commitment to a proposition or plan of action based on information and
values associated with the possible outcomes. The process operates in a flexible timeframe …