Spontaneous fluctuations in neuronal activity emerge at many spatial and temporal scales in
cortex. Population measures found these fluctuations to organize as scale-invariant …

When choosing actions, we can act decisively, vacillate, or suffer momentary indecision.
Studying how individual decisions unfold requires moment-by-moment readouts of brain …

Animals have evolved intricate search strategies to find new sources of food. Here, we
analyze a complex food seeking behavior in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (C …

In the real world, decision making processes must be able to integrate non-stationary
information that changes systematically while the decision is in progress. Although theories …

Most behaviors in mammals are directly or indirectly guided by prior experience and
therefore depend on the ability of our brains to form memories. The ability to form an …

Natural sounds such as wind or rain, are characterized by the statistical occurrence of their
constituents. Despite their complexity, listeners readily detect changes in these contexts. We …

Perceptual decision making can be described as a process of accumulating evidence to a
bound which has been formalized within drift-diffusion models (DDMs). Recently, an …

Expected utility models are often used as a normative baseline for human performance in
motor tasks. However, this baseline ignores computational costs that are incurred when …

Perceptual decision-making frequently requires making rapid, reliable choices upon
encountering noisy sensory inputs. To better define the statistical processes underlying …

In the study of perceptual decision making, it has been widely assumed that random
fluctuations of motion stimuli are irrelevant for a participant's choice. Recently, evidence was …