This article reviews recently proposed theories postulating that, during simple choices, the
brain performs statistically optimal decision making. These theories are ecologically …

Despite substantial advances, the question of how we make decisions and judgments
continues to pose important challenges for scientific research. Historically, different …

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

Flexible decision-making requires animals to forego immediate rewards (exploitation) and
try novel choice options (exploration) to discover if they are preferable to familiar …

Decision Neuroscience addresses fundamental questions about how the brain makes
perceptual, value-based, and more complex decisions in non-social and social contexts …

Rather than existing in a vacuum, decisions occur within a context of past experiences and
current conditions. While standard models of economic choice assume that decisions are …

We make decisions by comparing values, but it is not yet clear how value is represented in
the brain. Many models assume, if only implicitly, that the representational geometry of value …

Choosing the most valuable course of action requires knowing the outcomes associated
with the available alternatives. The striatum may be important for representing the values of …

Success in a constantly changing environment requires that decision-making strategies be
updated as reward contingencies change. How this is accomplished by the nervous system …