Perception and perceptual decision-making are strongly facilitated by prior knowledge about
the probabilistic structure of the world. While the computational benefits of using prior …

There are few behavioral effects as ubiquitous as the speed-accuracy tradeoff (SAT). From
insects to rodents to primates, the tendency for decision speed to covary with decision …

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and How We Learn, a breathtaking look at the new science that can track consciousness …

Mounting evidence suggests that understanding how the brain encodes information and
performs computations will require studying the correlations between neurons. The recent …

Decades of neurobiological research have disclosed the diverse manners in which the
response properties of neurons are dynamically modulated to support adaptive cognitive …

Visual attention can improve behavioral performance by allowing observers to focus on the
important information in a complex scene. Attention also typically increases the firing rates of …

People are often aware of their mistakes, and report levels of confidence in their choices that
correlate with objective performance. These metacognitive assessments of decision quality …

The degree of confidence in a decision provides a graded and probabilistic assessment of
expected outcome. Although neural mechanisms of perceptual decisions have been studied …

Choosing among spatially distributed options is a central challenge for animals, from
deciding among alternative potential food sources or refuges to choosing with whom to …

There is accumulating neural evidence to support the existence of two distinct systems for
guiding action selection, a deliberative" model-based" and a reflexive" model-free" system …