Rodent decision-making research aims to uncover the neural circuitry underlying the ability
to evaluate alternatives and select appropriate actions. Designing behavioral paradigms that …

We hypothesized that during binary economic choice, decision makers use the first option
they attend as a default to which they compare the second. To test this idea, we recorded …

Choice behavior requires weighing multiple decision variables, such as utility, uncertainty,
delay, or effort, that combine to define a subjective value for each considered option or …

Humans have a remarkable capacity to mentally project themselves far ahead in time. This
ability, which entails the mental simulation of events, is thought to be fundamental to …

Few aspects of human cognition are more personal than the choices we make. Our
decisions—from the mundane to the impossibly complex—continually shape the courses of …

Introduction Studies of categorical decision-making attempt to understand behavior by
probing how different features of complex and changing environments guide the selection of …

Neuroscience, by its nature, seems to hold considerable promise for understanding the
fundamental mechanisms of decision making. In recent years, several studies in the domain …

Sensory decisions may be influenced by non-sensory information regarding reward
magnitude or reward likelihood. Given identical sensory information, it is more optimal to …

Biology places a resource constraint on the form of neural computations that ultimately
characterize stochastic choice behaviour. We incorporate one such computation, divisive …