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 …

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

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 …

Perceptual decision making is the act of choosing one option or course of action from a set
of alternatives on the basis of available sensory evidence. Thus, when we make such …

The discovery of neural signals that reflect the dynamics of perceptual decision formation
has had a considerable impact. Not only do such signals enable detailed investigations of …

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 …

The intersection between the fields of behavioral decision research and neuroscience has
proved to be fertile ground for interdisciplinary research. Whereas the former is rich in …

The study of decision making poses new methodological challenges for systems
neuroscience. Whereas our traditional approach linked neural activity to external variables …

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