Our decisions are guided by outcomes that are associated with decisions made in the past.
However, the amount of influence each past outcome has on our next decision remains …

Decision making in an uncertain environment poses a conflict between the opposing
demands of gathering and exploiting information. In a classic illustration of this 'exploration …

Neuroimaging studies of decision-making have generally related neural activity to objective
measures (such as reward magnitude, probability or delay), despite choice preferences …

Visual search, a vital task for humans and animals, has also become a common and
important tool for studying many topics central to active vision and cognition ranging from …

To understand subjective evaluation of an option, various disciplines have quantified the
interaction between reward and effort during decision making, producing an estimate of …

Visual selective attention is the brain function that modulates ongoing processing of retinal
input in order for selected representations to gain privileged access to perceptual …

Traditionally the object of economic theory and experimental psychology, economic choice
recently became a lively research focus in systems neuroscience. Here I summarize the …

For many years there has been a debate about the role of the parietal lobe in the generation
of behavior. Does it generate movement plans (intention) or choose objects in the …

Many large and small decisions we make in our daily lives—which ice cream to choose,
what research projects to pursue, which partner to marry—require an exploration of …

The classic experiments of Yarbus over 50 years ago revealed that saccadic eye
movements reflect cognitive processes. But it is only recently that three separate advances …