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

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 …

The dilemma between information gathering (exploration) and reward seeking (exploitation)
is a fundamental problem for reinforcement learning agents. How humans resolve this …

Preference-based decisions are essential for survival, for instance, when deciding what we
should (not) eat. Despite their importance, preference-based decisions are surprisingly …

Decisions are never perfect, with confidence in one's choices fluctuating over time. How
subjective confidence and valuation of choice options interact at the level of brain and …

Psychological models of value-based decision-making describe how subjective values are
formed and mapped to single choices. Recently, additional efforts have been made to …

Deciding between stimuli requires combining their learned value with one's sensory
confidence. We trained mice in a visual task that probes this combination. Mouse choices …

Many decisions we make require visually identifying and evaluating numerous alternatives
quickly. These usually vary in reward, or value, and in low-level visual properties, such as …

When making choices under conditions of perceptual uncertainty, past experience can play
a vital role. However, it can also lead to biases that worsen decisions. Consistent with …

Organisms make two types of decisions on a regular basis. Perceptual decisions are
determined by objective states of the world (eg, melons are bigger than apples), whereas …