The strategies found by animals facing a new task are determined both by individual
experience and by structural priors evolved to leverage the statistics of natural …

Acting in the natural world requires not only deciding among multiple options but also
converting decisions into motor commands. How the dynamics of decision formation …

Making informed decisions in noisy environments requires integrating sensory information
over time. However, recent work has suggested that it may be difficult to determine whether …

Perceptual decision-making is the process by which an animal uses sensory stimuli to
choose an action or mental proposition. This process is thought to be mediated by neurons …

To meet their survival needs, organisms must continuously select which sensory stimuli to
attend to and decide how much attention to pay. Attention's selective aspect has been a …

How does the brain process natural visual stimuli to make a decision? Imagine driving
through fog. An object looms ahead. What do you do? This decision requires not only …

Problematic alcohol consumption is associated with deficits in decision-making and
alterations in prefrontal cortex neural activity likely contribute. We hypothesized that the …

Arousal and motivation interact to profoundly influence behavior. For example, experience
tells us that we have some capacity to control our arousal when appropriately motivated …

Cognition is produced by the continuous interactions between many regions across the
brain, but has typically been studied one brain region at a time. How signals in different …

The now-classic goal-gradient hypothesis posits that organisms increase effort expenditure
as a function of their proximity to a goal. Despite nearly a century having passed since its …