Neural mechanisms that make perceptual decisions flexible

G Okazawa, R Kiani - Annual review of physiology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Neural mechanisms of perceptual decision making have been extensively studied in
experimental settings that mimic stable environments with repeating stimuli, fixed rules, and …

[HTML][HTML] Computation noise in human learning and decision-making: origin, impact, function

C Findling, V Wyart - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•Computation noise drives human decision variability under uncertainty.•
Computation noise sets cognitive constraints on information processing.•Computation noise …

Differentiating between integration and non-integration strategies in perceptual decision making

GM Stine, A Zylberberg, J Ditterich, MN Shadlen - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Many tasks used to study decision-making encourage subjects to integrate evidence over
time. Such tasks are useful to understand how the brain operates on multiple samples of …

The biochemical basis of mitochondrial dysfunction in Zellweger Spectrum Disorder

E Nuebel, JT Morgan, S Fogarty, JM Winter… - EMBO …, 2021 - embopress.org
Peroxisomal biogenesis disorders (PBDs) are genetic disorders of peroxisome biogenesis
and metabolism that are characterized by profound developmental and neurological …

Multiple timescales of sensory-evidence accumulation across the dorsal cortex

L Pinto, DW Tank, CD Brody - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Cortical areas seem to form a hierarchy of intrinsic timescales, but the relevance of this
organization for cognitive behavior remains unknown. In particular, decisions requiring the …

Designing and interpreting psychophysical investigations of cognition

ML Waskom, G Okazawa, R Kiani - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
Scientific experimentation depends on the artificial control of natural phenomena. The
inaccessibility of cognitive processes to direct manipulation can make such control difficult to …

Verification of recurrent neural networks for cognitive tasks via reachability analysis

H Zhang, M Shinn, A Gupta, A Gurfinkel, N Le… - ECAI 2020, 2020 - ebooks.iospress.nl
Abstract Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are one of the most successful neural network
architectures that deal with temporal sequences, eg, speech and text recognition. Recently …

Premature commitment to uncertain decisions during human NMDA receptor hypofunction

A Salvador, LH Arnal, F Vinckier, P Domenech… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Making accurate decisions based on unreliable sensory evidence requires cognitive
inference. Dysfunction of n-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptors impairs the integration of …

Multiple decisions about one object involve parallel sensory acquisition but time-multiplexed evidence incorporation

YHR Kang, A Löffler, D Jeurissen, A Zylberberg… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
The brain is capable of processing several streams of information that bear on different
aspects of the same problem. Here, we address the problem of making two decisions about …

Perceptual decision-making: a field in the midst of a transformation

F Najafi, AK Churchland - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
Major changes are underway in the field of perceptual decision-making. Single-neuron
studies have given way to population recordings with identified cell types, traditional …