Most sensory, cognitive and motor functions depend on the interactions of many neurons. In
recent years, there has been rapid development and increasing use of technologies for …

Sensory signals are highly structured in both space and time. These structural regularities in
visual information allow expectations to form about future stimulation, thereby facilitating …

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 …

For nearly 50 years, the dominant account of decision-making holds that noisy information is
accumulated until a fixed threshold is crossed. This account has been tested extensively …

It has been suggested that the lateral intraparietal area (LIP) of macaques plays a
fundamental role in sensorimotor decision-making. We examined the neural code in LIP at …

Neurons in the macaque lateral intraparietal (LIP) area exhibit firing rates that appear to
ramp upward or downward during decision-making. These ramps are commonly assumed to …

Decisions are held in memory until enacted, which makes them potentially vulnerable to
distracting sensory input. Gating of information flow from sensory to motor areas could …

Decision making often involves a tradeoff between speed and accuracy. Previous studies
indicate that neural activity in the lateral intraparietal area (LIP) represents the gradual …

Highlights•Gradual accumulation of evidence, core to decision-making, can be studied in
rodents.•Pulse-based sensory evidence stimuli facilitate behavioral and neural …

The ability to change initial decisions in the face of new or potentially conflicting information
is fundamental to adaptive behavior. From perceptual tasks to multiple-choice tests …