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 …

Perceptual decision making is the process by which animals detect, discriminate, and
categorize information from the senses. Over the past two decades, understanding how …

One of the most fascinating issues in neuroscience is how the brain makes decisions.
Recent evidence points to the parietal cortex as an important locus for certain kinds of …

Decision making, the process of choosing between options, is a fundamental human
behavior that has been studied intensively by disciplines ranging from cognitive psychology …

Neurophysiological studies of decision making have primarily focused on decisions about
information that is stable over time. However, during natural behavior, animals make …

Categorical choices are preceded by the accumulation of sensory evidence in favor of one
action or another. Current models describe evidence accumulation as a continuous process …

A fundamental problem in neurobiology is to understand how brain circuits represent
sensory information and how such representations give rise to perception, memory and …

We are called upon to make decisions, large and small, many times a day. Whether in the
voting booth, the stock exchange, or the cafeteria line, we identify potential options, estimate …

Decision making is a complex process in which different sources of information are
combined into a decision variable (DV) that guides action [1, 2]. Neurophysiological studies …

This essay reviews recent developments in neurobiology which are beginning to expose the
mechanisms that underlie some elements of decision-making that bear on attributions of …