Environmental stimuli and objects, including rewards, are often processed sequentially in
the brain. Recent work suggests that the phasic dopamine reward prediction-error response …

Rewards are crucial objects that induce learning, approach behavior, choices, and
emotions. Whereas emotions are difficult to investigate in animals, the learning function is …

Over the past 20 years, neuroscience research on reward-based learning has converged on
a canonical model, under which the neurotransmitter dopamine 'stamps in'associations …

Persistent activity generated in the PFC during the delay period of working memory tasks
represents information about stimuli held in memory and determines working memory …

A major debate about the neural correlates of conscious perception concerns its cortical
organization, namely, whether it includes the prefrontal cortex (PFC), which mediates …

Prefrontal cortex is thought to have a fundamental role in flexible, context-dependent
behaviour, but the exact nature of the computations underlying this role remains largely …

Highlights•Preparatory activity is a neural correlate of motor planning.•Multiple brain areas
cooperate to maintain preparatory activity.•Preparatory activity sets network activity to an …

There are few behavioral effects as ubiquitous as the speed-accuracy tradeoff (SAT). From
insects to rodents to primates, the tendency for decision speed to covary with decision …

Sensory areas are spontaneously active in the absence of sensory stimuli. This
spontaneous activity has long been studied; however, its functional role remains largely …

Gradual accumulation of evidence is thought to be fundamental for decision-making, and its
neural correlates have been found in several brain regions,,,,,,,. Here we develop a …