Decision making often occurs in the face of uncertainty about whether one's choices will
lead to benefit or harm. The somatic-marker hypothesis is a neurobiological theory of how …

The quantitative study of decision-making has traditionally rested on three key behavioral
measures: accuracy, response time, and confidence. Of these, confidence—defined as the …

In theoretical accounts of perceptual decision-making, a decision variable integrates noisy
sensory evidence and determines action through a boundary-crossing criterion. Signals …

I review a variety of behavioral studies directed at understanding how probability and value
information is represented in motor and cognitive tasks. Subjects in (cognitive) decision …

Decision making is studied from a number of different theoretical approaches. Normative
theories focus on how to make the best decisions by deriving algebraic representations of …

Decision making is thought to be guided by the values of alternative options and involve the
accumulation of evidence to an internal bound. However, in natural behavior, evidence …

Neurophysiological studies of decision-making have focused primarily on elucidating the
mechanisms of classic economic decisions, for which the relevant variables are the values …

Goal-directed behavior requires the flexible transformation of sensory evidence about our
environment into motor actions. Studies of perceptual decision-making have shown that this …

▪ Abstract Over the past two decades significant progress has been made toward
understanding the neural basis of primate decision making, the biological process that …

Electrophysiological research has isolated neural signatures of decision formation in a
variety of brain regions. Studies in rodents and monkeys have focused primarily on effector …