Strategies for improving individual decision making have attracted attention from a range of
disciplines. Surprisingly, neuroscience has been largely absent from this conversation …

Although it is widely known that brain regions such as the prefrontal cortex, the amygdala,
and the ventral striatum play large roles in decision making, their precise contributions …

Perceptual decisions are made when sensory evidence accumulated over time reaches a
decision threshold. Because decisions are also guided by prior information, one important …

Both decision making and sensorimotor control require real-time processing of noisy
information streams. Historically these processes were thought to operate sequentially …

Our choices often require appropriate actions to obtain a preferred outcome, but the neural
underpinnings that link decision making and action selection remain largely undetermined …

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

INTRODUCTION Research on the neurobiology of decision-making has emerged as a fertile
ground for integrating cognitive, systems, computational, and, more recently, circuit and …

Neuroeconomics seeks to gain a greater understanding of decision making by combining
theoretical and methodological principles from the fields of psychology, economics, and …

Highlights•Decision-related and action-related signals in the cortex have diverse temporal
profiles.•Mechanisms to decode decision signals distributed across neurons are …

Perceptual decisions arise from the activity of neurons distributed across brain circuits. But,
decoding the mechanisms behind this cognitive operation across brain circuits has long …