Organisms make two types of decisions on a regular basis. Perceptual decisions are
determined by objective states of the world (eg, melons are bigger than apples), whereas …

Although many preferential choices in everyday life require remembering relevant
information, the interplay of neural systems mediating decisions and memory has rarely …

Humans and other animals often violate economic principles when choosing between
multiple alternatives, but the underlying neurocognitive mechanisms remain elusive. A …

For decades sequential sampling models have successfully accounted for human and
monkey decision-making, relying on the standard assumption that decision makers maintain …

Decision-making models in the behavioral, cognitive, and neural sciences typically consist
of forced-choice paradigms with two alternatives. While theoretically it is feasible to translate …

To make good judgments people gather information. An important problem an agent needs
to solve is when to continue sampling data and when to stop gathering evidence. We …

Classical economic theory contends that the utility of a choice option should be independent
of other options. This view is challenged by the attraction effect, in which the relative …

Decisions about actions typically involve a period of deliberation that ends with the
commitment to a choice and the motor processes overtly expressing that choice. Previous …

The dominant view in neuroscience, including functional neuroimaging, is that the brain is
an essentially reactive system, in which some sensory input causes some neural activity …

How do I decide which restaurant to eat at? How do I form and update the beliefs about the
world that shape my behavior, from my food preferences to career path? The brain makes …