Adaptive biasing of action-selective cortical build-up activity by stimulus history
Decisions under uncertainty are often biased by the history of preceding sensory input, behavioral choices, or received outcomes. Behavioral studies of perceptual decisions suggest that such history-dependent biases affect the accumulation of evidence and can be adapted to the correlation structure...
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| description | Decisions under uncertainty are often biased by the history of preceding sensory input, behavioral choices, or received outcomes. Behavioral studies of perceptual decisions suggest that such history-dependent biases affect the accumulation of evidence and can be adapted to the correlation structure of the sensory environment. Here, we systematically varied this correlation structure while human participants performed a canonical perceptual choice task. We tracked the trial-by-trial variations of history biases via behavioral modeling and of a neural signature of decision formation via magnetoencephalography (MEG). The history bias was flexibly adapted to the environment and exerted a selective effect on the build-up (not baseline level) of action-selective motor cortical activity during decision formation. This effect added to the impact of the current stimulus. We conclude that the build-up of action plans in human motor cortical circuits is shaped by dynamic prior expectations that result from an adaptive interaction with the environment. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-58c019d3edfa4b0a94114f477e52ef252023-12-07T15:15:02ZengeLife Sciences Publications LtdeLife2050-084X2023-12-011210.7554/eLife.86740Adaptive biasing of action-selective cortical build-up activity by stimulus historyAnke Braun0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1946-7765Tobias H Donner1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7559-6019Section Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences, Berlin, Germany; Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Berlin, GermanySection Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, GermanyDecisions under uncertainty are often biased by the history of preceding sensory input, behavioral choices, or received outcomes. Behavioral studies of perceptual decisions suggest that such history-dependent biases affect the accumulation of evidence and can be adapted to the correlation structure of the sensory environment. Here, we systematically varied this correlation structure while human participants performed a canonical perceptual choice task. We tracked the trial-by-trial variations of history biases via behavioral modeling and of a neural signature of decision formation via magnetoencephalography (MEG). The history bias was flexibly adapted to the environment and exerted a selective effect on the build-up (not baseline level) of action-selective motor cortical activity during decision formation. This effect added to the impact of the current stimulus. We conclude that the build-up of action plans in human motor cortical circuits is shaped by dynamic prior expectations that result from an adaptive interaction with the environment.https://elifesciences.org/articles/86740perceptual decision-makingaction planninghuman motor cortexhistory bias |
| spellingShingle | Anke Braun Tobias H Donner Adaptive biasing of action-selective cortical build-up activity by stimulus history eLife perceptual decision-making action planning human motor cortex history bias |
| title | Adaptive biasing of action-selective cortical build-up activity by stimulus history |
| title_full | Adaptive biasing of action-selective cortical build-up activity by stimulus history |
| title_fullStr | Adaptive biasing of action-selective cortical build-up activity by stimulus history |
| title_full_unstemmed | Adaptive biasing of action-selective cortical build-up activity by stimulus history |
| title_short | Adaptive biasing of action-selective cortical build-up activity by stimulus history |
| title_sort | adaptive biasing of action selective cortical build up activity by stimulus history |
| topic | perceptual decision-making action planning human motor cortex history bias |
| url | https://elifesciences.org/articles/86740 |
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