A major shift is happening within neurophysiology: a population doctrine is drawing level
with the single-neuron doctrine that has long dominated the field. Population-level ideas …

We propose that the entirety of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) can be seen as fundamentally
premotor in nature. By this, we mean that the PFC consists of an action abstraction hierarchy …

The nervous system is a product of evolution. That is, it was constructed through a long
series of modifications, within the strong constraints of heredity, and continuously subjected …

Much of traditional neuroeconomics proceeds from the hypothesis that value is reified in the
brain, that is, that there are neurons or brain regions whose responses serve the discrete …

Humans and other animals evolved to make decisions that extend over time with continuous
and ever-changing options. Nonetheless, the academic study of decision-making is mostly …

Most current decision-making research focuses on classical economic scenarios, where
choice offers are prespecified and where action dynamics play no role in the decision …

We propose that economic choice can be understood as a gradual transformation from a
domain of options to one of the actions. We draw an analogy with the idea of untangling …

Highlights•Foraging provides a basis for modeling economic choice based on
adaptiveness.•Foraging choices are accept–reject; foraging models interpret binary choice …

Economic choice proceeds from evaluation, in which we contemplate options, to selection,
in which we weigh options and choose one. These stages must be differentiated so that …

During economic choice, options are often considered in alternation, until commitment.
Nonetheless, neuroeconomics typically ignores the dynamic aspects of deliberation. We …