Neural mechanisms that make perceptual decisions flexible

G Okazawa, R Kiani - Annual review of physiology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Neural mechanisms of perceptual decision making have been extensively studied in
experimental settings that mimic stable environments with repeating stimuli, fixed rules, and …

Tasks and their role in visual neuroscience

K Kay, K Bonnen, RN Denison, MJ Arcaro, DL Barack - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
Vision is widely used as a model system to gain insights into how sensory inputs are
processed and interpreted by the brain. Historically, careful quantification and control of …

Bayesian inference with incomplete knowledge explains perceptual confidence and its deviations from accuracy

K Khalvati, R Kiani, RPN Rao - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
In perceptual decisions, subjects infer hidden states of the environment based on noisy
sensory information. Here we show that both choice and its associated confidence are …

[HTML][HTML] How to run behavioural experiments online: Best practice suggestions for cognitive psychology and neuroscience

N Gagné, L Franzen - … Open: the official journal of the …, 2023 - swisspsychologyopen.com
The combination of a replication crisis, the global COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and recent
technological advances, have accelerated the on-going transition of research in cognitive …

Graded decisions in the human brain

T Xie, M Adamek, H Cho, MA Adamo… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Decision-makers objectively commit to a definitive choice, yet at the subjective level, human
decisions appear to be associated with a degree of uncertainty. Whether decisions are …

Dynamical latent state computation in the male macaque posterior parietal cortex

KJ Lakshminarasimhan, E Avila, X Pitkow… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Success in many real-world tasks depends on our ability to dynamically track hidden states
of the world. We hypothesized that neural populations estimate these states by processing …

Spectral-temporal processing of naturalistic sounds in monkeys and humans

RF van der Willigen, H Versnel… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.physiology.org
Human speech and vocalizations in animals are rich in joint spectrotemporal (ST)
modulations, wherein acoustic changes in both frequency and time are functionally related …

Attention network modulation via tRNS correlates with attention gain

F Contò, G Edwards, S Tyler, D Parrott, E Grossman… - elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Transcranial random noise stimulation (tRNS) can enhance vision in the healthy and
diseased brain. Yet, the impact of multi-day tRNS on large-scale cortical networks is still …

Linear integration of sensory evidence over space and time underlies face categorization

G Okazawa, L Sha, R Kiani - Journal of Neuroscience, 2021 - Soc Neuroscience
Visual object recognition relies on elaborate sensory processes that transform retinal inputs
to object representations, but it also requires decision-making processes that read out object …

Group-based, autonomous, individualized training and testing of long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in their home enclosure to a visuo-acoustic …

J Cabrera-Moreno, L Jeanson, M Jeschke… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, the utility and efficiency of automated procedures for cognitive assessment
in psychology and neuroscience have been demonstrated in non-human primates (NHP) …