The superior colliculus (SC) has long been known to be part of the network of brain areas
involved in spatial attention, but recent findings have dramatically refined our understanding …

Research on executive functioning and on self-regulation have each identified a critical
resource that is central to that domain and is susceptible to depletion. In addition, studies …

The study of decision making spans such varied fields as neuroscience, psychology,
economics, statistics, political science, and computer science. Despite this diversity of …

We recorded the activity of single neurons in the posterior parietal cortex (area LIP) of two
rhesus monkeys while they discriminated the direction of motion in random-dot visual …

Decision theory proposes that humans and animals decide what to do in a given situation by
assessing the relative value of each possible response. This assessment can be computed …

A broad range of evidence regarding the functional organization of the vertebrate brain–
spanning from comparative neurology to experimental psychology and neurophysiology to …

Patterns of neural firing linked to eye movement decisions show that behavioral decisions
are predicted by the differential firing rates of cells coding selected and nonselected stimulus …

We review and synthesize recent neurophysiological studies of decision making in humans
and nonhuman primates. From these studies, the basic outline of the neurobiological …

Decision-making behavior has been studied extensively, but the neurophysiological
mechanisms responsible for this remarkable cognitive ability are just beginning to be …

A new academic field, neuroeconomics, has emerged at the border of the social and natural
sciences. In Foundations of Neuroeconomic Analysis, Paul Glimcher argues that a …