When mice use vision to choose their trajectories, a large fraction of parietal cortex activity can be precisely predicted from navigational attributes such as spatial position and heading.
Niels A Kloosterman, Jan Willem de Gee ... Johannes Jacobus Fahrenfort
Decision-makers are able to intentionally control neural excitability to strategically bias sensory evidence accumulation towards the decision bound that maximizes reward within a given ecological context.
Yuki Tanimoto, Akiko Yamazoe-Umemoto ... Koutarou D Kimura
A series of quantitative behavioural and opto-physiological analyses using a novel robot microscope system reveals that C. elegans computes the time-differential and time-integral of sensory information for decision-making during olfactory navigation.
Statistical analysis of morphogen gradients indicates that non-linear morphogen decay does not lead to significantly increased patterning precision, and in fact, the opposite is observed far from the source.
Local disinhibition provides a biologically plausible mechanism for flexible top-down control of network states that integrates normalized value coding, winner-take-all choice, and persistent activity in a single circuit of decision-making.
Divisive normalisation effects on decision making caused by distractor options can be reduced by stimulating the parietal cortex using transcranial magnetic stimulation.
Maria Ruesseler, Lilian Aline Weber ... Laurence Tudor Hunt
Human behaviour in a continuous decision making task adapts to the overall statistics of the sensory environment, and these adaptations are also reflected in changes in neural responses to incoming sensory evidence.