Economic value biases uncertain perceptual choices in the parietal and prefrontal cortices

An observer detecting a noisy sensory signal is biased by the costs and benefits associated with its presence or absence. When these costs and benefits are asymmetric, sensory and economic information must be integrated to inform the final choice. However, it remains unknown how this information i...

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Main Authors: Christopher eSummerfield, Etienne eKoechlin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2010-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2010.00208/full