Representation of Accumulating Evidence for a Decision in Two Parietal Areas

Decisions are often made by accumulating evidence for and against the alternatives. The momentary evidence represented by sensory neurons is accumulated by downstream structures to form a decision variable, linking the evolving decision to the formation of a motor plan. When decisions are communicat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: de Lafuente, Victor, Jazayeri, Mehrdad, Shadlen, Michael N.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Society for Neuroscience 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98396