Psychology and neuroscience are concerned with the study of behavior, of internal cognitive
processes, and their neural foundations. However, most laboratory studies use constrained …

We discuss how cybernetic principles of feedback control, used to explain sensorimotor
behavior, can be extended to provide a foundation for understanding cognition. In particular …

Decisions take time, and as a rule more difficult decisions take more time. But this only
raises the question of what consumes the time. For decisions informed by a sequence of …

A decision is a commitment to a proposition or plan of action based on information and
values associated with the possible outcomes. The process operates in a flexible timeframe …

The neural bases of behavior are often discussed in terms of perceptual, cognitive, and
motor stages, defined within an information processing framework that was originally …

Abstract [Correction Notice: An erratum for this article was reported in Vol 118 (1) of
Psychological Review (see record 2011-00732-004). The name of the philosopher Charles …

Recent theoretical models suggest that deciding about actions and executing them are not
implemented by completely distinct neural mechanisms but are instead two modes of an …

Neurophysiological studies of decision making have primarily focused on decisions about
information that is stable over time. However, during natural behavior, animals make …

How does the brain decide between actions? Is it through comparisons of abstract
representations of outcomes or through a competition in a sensorimotor map defining the …

Embodied Choice considers action performance as a proper part of the decision making
process rather than merely as a means to report the decision. The central statement of …