An organism's survival depends on its ability to learn about its environment and to make
adaptive decisions in the service of achieving the best possible outcomes in that …

Neural mechanisms of perceptual decision making have been extensively studied in
experimental settings that mimic stable environments with repeating stimuli, fixed rules, and …

Classical models of perceptual decision-making assume that subjects use a single,
consistent strategy to form decisions, or that decision-making strategies evolve slowly over …

A prominent source of polarised and entrenched beliefs is confirmation bias, where
evidence against one's position is selectively disregarded. This effect is most starkly evident …

Trial history biases and lapses are two of the most common suboptimalities observed during
perceptual decision-making. These suboptimalities are routinely assumed to arise from …

Controlling behavior to flexibly achieve desired goals depends on the ability to monitor one's
own performance. It is unknown how performance monitoring can be both flexible, to support …

People's assessments of the state of the world often deviate systematically from the
information available to them [1]. Such biases can originate from people's own decisions …

To interact successfully with diverse sensory environments, we must adapt our decision
processes to account for time constraints and prior probabilities. The full set of decision …

An animal's decision depends not only on incoming sensory evidence but also on its
fluctuating internal state. This state embodies multiple cognitive factors, such as arousal and …

Decisions are often made by accumulating ambiguous evidence over time. The brain's
arousal systems are activated during such decisions. In previous work in humans, we found …