Orbitofrontal cortex: a neural circuit for economic decisions

C Padoa-Schioppa, KE Conen - Neuron, 2017 - cell.com
Economic choice behavior entails the computation and comparison of subjective values. A
central contribution of neuroeconomics has been to show that subjective values are …

Feedforward and feedback sources of choice probability in neural population responses

BG Cumming, H Nienborg - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Decision-related activity (choice-probabilities [CPs]) in sensory neurons is widely
found.•Correlated variability in sensory neurons limits information in some cases.•The …

Learning enhances sensory and multiple non-sensory representations in primary visual cortex

J Poort, AG Khan, M Pachitariu, A Nemri, I Orsolic… - Neuron, 2015 - cell.com
We determined how learning modifies neural representations in primary visual cortex (V1)
during acquisition of a visually guided behavioral task. We imaged the activity of the same …

Explicit information for category-orthogonal object properties increases along the ventral stream

H Hong, DLK Yamins, NJ Majaj, JJ DiCarlo - Nature neuroscience, 2016 - nature.com
Extensive research has revealed that the ventral visual stream hierarchically builds a robust
representation for supporting visual object categorization tasks. We systematically explored …

Origins of choice-related activity in mouse somatosensory cortex

H Yang, SE Kwon, KS Severson, DH O'connor - Nature neuroscience, 2016 - nature.com
During perceptual decisions about faint or ambiguous sensory stimuli, even identical stimuli
can produce different choices. Spike trains from sensory cortex neurons can predict trial-to …

Feedback determines the structure of correlated variability in primary visual cortex

AG Bondy, RM Haefner, BG Cumming - Nature neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
The variable responses of sensory neurons tend to be weakly correlated (spike-count
correlation, r sc). This is widely thought to reflect noise in shared afferents, in which case r sc …

Neuronal variability reflects probabilistic inference tuned to natural image statistics

D Festa, A Aschner, A Davila, A Kohn… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Neuronal activity in sensory cortex fluctuates over time and across repetitions of the same
input. This variability is often considered detrimental to neural coding. The theory of neural …

Causal contribution of primate auditory cortex to auditory perceptual decision-making

J Tsunada, ASK Liu, JI Gold, YE Cohen - Nature neuroscience, 2016 - nature.com
Auditory perceptual decisions are thought to be mediated by the ventral auditory pathway.
However, the specific and causal contributions of different brain regions in this pathway …

Dissociating sensory from decision processes in human perceptual decision making

P Mostert, P Kok, FP de Lange - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
A key question within systems neuroscience is how the brain translates physical stimulation
into a behavioral response: perceptual decision making. To answer this question, it is …

Serotonin decreases the gain of visual responses in awake macaque V1

L Seillier, C Lorenz, K Kawaguchi, T Ott… - Journal of …, 2017 - Soc Neuroscience
Serotonin, an important neuromodulator in the brain, is implicated in affective and cognitive
functions. However, its role even for basic cortical processes is controversial. For example …