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View article: Embodied decision making in athletes and other animals
Embodied decision making in athletes and other animals Open
Humans and other animals continuously make embodied decisions about ongoing or pending courses of action. Examples of embodied decisions include a hunting lioness's decision of which gazelle to chase and a soccer player's decision of which…
View article: Embodied decision making in athletes and other animals
Embodied decision making in athletes and other animals Open
Humans and other animals continuously make embodied decisions about ongoing or pending courses of action. Examples of embodied decisions include a hunting lioness’s decision of which gazelle to chase and a soccer player’s decision of which…
View article: Embodied decision making in athletes and other animals
Embodied decision making in athletes and other animals Open
Humans and other animals continuously make embodied decisions about ongoing or pending courses of action. Examples of embodied decisions include a hunting lioness’s decision of which gazelle to chase and a soccer player’s decision of which…
View article: Planning-while-acting: addressing the continuous dynamics of planning and action in a virtually embodied task
Planning-while-acting: addressing the continuous dynamics of planning and action in a virtually embodied task Open
Everyday tasks, such as selecting routes when driving or preparing meals require making sequences of embodied decisions, in which planning and action processes are intertwined. In this study, we address how people make sequential embodied …
View article: Toward a neuroscience of natural behavior
Toward a neuroscience of natural behavior Open
One of the most exciting new developments in systems neuroscience is the progress being made toward neurophysiological experiments that move beyond simplified laboratory settings and address the richness of natural behavior. This is enable…
View article: Biomechanical Costs Influence Decisions Made During Ongoing Actions
Biomechanical Costs Influence Decisions Made During Ongoing Actions Open
Accurate interaction with the environment relies on the integration of external information about the spatial layout of potential actions and knowledge of their costs and benefits. Previous studies have shown that when given a choice betwe…
View article: Generating meaning: active inference and the scope and limits of passive AI
Generating meaning: active inference and the scope and limits of passive AI Open
Prominent accounts of sentient behavior depict brains as generative models of organismic interaction with the world, evincing intriguing similarities with current advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI). However, because they c…
View article: Beyond simple laboratory studies: Developing sophisticated models to study rich behavior
Beyond simple laboratory studies: Developing sophisticated models to study rich behavior Open
Psychology and neuroscience are concerned with the study of behavior, of internal cognitive processes, and their neural foundations. However, most laboratory studies use constrained experimental settings that greatly limit the range of beh…
View article: Beyond simple laboratory studies: developing sophisticated models to study rich behavior
Beyond simple laboratory studies: developing sophisticated models to study rich behavior Open
Psychology and neuroscience are concerned with the study of behavior, of internal cognitive processes, and their neural foundations. However, most laboratory studies use constrained experimental settings that greatly limit the range of beh…
View article: Generating Meaning: Active Inference and the Scope and Limits of Passive AI
Generating Meaning: Active Inference and the Scope and Limits of Passive AI Open
Prominent accounts of sentient behaviour depict brains as generative models of organismic interaction with the world, raising points of contact with current work in Generative AI. However, because they contend with the control of purposive…
View article: Preference Shifts During Multi-Attribute Value-Based Decisions
Preference Shifts During Multi-Attribute Value-Based Decisions Open
When choosing between options with multiple attributes, do we decide by integrating all of the attributes into a unified measure for comparison, or does the comparison occur at the level of each attribute, involving independent competitive…
View article: Integrated neural dynamics of sensorimotor decisions and actions
Integrated neural dynamics of sensorimotor decisions and actions Open
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 integrated dynamical system. Here, we investigate this proposal b…
View article: Distinct trajectories in low-dimensional neural oscillation state space track dynamic decision-making in humans
Distinct trajectories in low-dimensional neural oscillation state space track dynamic decision-making in humans Open
The brain evolved to govern behavior in a dynamic world, in which pertinent information about choices is often in flux. Thus, the commitment to an action choice must reflect a balance between monitoring that information and the necessity t…
View article: Performance-gated deliberation: A context-adapted strategy in which urgency is opportunity cost
Performance-gated deliberation: A context-adapted strategy in which urgency is opportunity cost Open
Finding the right amount of deliberation, between insufficient and excessive, is a hard decision making problem that depends on the value we place on our time. Average-reward, putatively encoded by tonic dopamine, serves in existing reinfo…
View article: Hasty sensorimotor decisions rely on an overlap of broad and selective changes in motor activity
Hasty sensorimotor decisions rely on an overlap of broad and selective changes in motor activity Open
Humans and other animals are able to adjust their speed–accuracy trade-off (SAT) at will depending on the urge to act, favoring either cautious or hasty decision policies in different contexts. An emerging view is that SAT regulation relie…
View article: Data and MATLAB code for neural space analyses of the tokens task in monkeys
Data and MATLAB code for neural space analyses of the tokens task in monkeys Open
This includes the data and MATLAB software necessary to produce the analyses reported in Thura, Cabana, Feghaly & Cisek (2022) " Integrated neural dynamics of sensorimotor decisions and actions" See DataDocumentation.pdf for instructions.
View article: Neuroscience needs evolution
Neuroscience needs evolution Open
The nervous system is a product of evolution. That is, it was constructed through a long series of modifications, within the strong constraints of heredity, and continuously subjected to intense selection pressures. As a result, the organi…
View article: Evolution of behavioural control from chordates to primates
Evolution of behavioural control from chordates to primates Open
This article outlines a hypothetical sequence of evolutionary innovations, along the lineage that produced humans, which extended behavioural control from simple feedback loops to sophisticated control of diverse species-typical actions. I…
View article: Changes ofMind after Movement Onset Depend on the State of the Motor System
Changes ofMind after Movement Onset Depend on the State of the Motor System Open
Decision-making is traditionally described as a cognitive process of deliberation followed by commitment to an action choice, preceding the planning and execution of the chosen action. However, this is challenged by recent data suggesting …
View article: Hasty sensorimotor decisions rely on an overlap of broad and selective changes in motor activity
Hasty sensorimotor decisions rely on an overlap of broad and selective changes in motor activity Open
Summary Humans and other animals are able to adjust their speed-accuracy tradeoff (SAT) at will depending on the urge to act, favoring either cautious or hasty decision policies in different contexts. An emerging view is that SAT regulatio…
View article: Deliberation gated by opportunity cost adapts to context with urgency
Deliberation gated by opportunity cost adapts to context with urgency Open
Finding the right amount of deliberation, between insufficient and excessive, is a hard decision making problem that depends on the value we place on our time. Average-reward, putatively encoded by tonic dopamine, serves in existing reinfo…
View article: Trading accuracy for speed over the course of a decision
Trading accuracy for speed over the course of a decision Open
Extensive research has been devoted to understanding the mechanisms allowing the regulation of the speed-accuracy tradeoff (SAT) from one context to another and from one decision to another. Here, we show that humans can voluntarily change…
View article: Evidence and Urgency Related EEG Signals during Dynamic Decision-Making in Humans
Evidence and Urgency Related EEG Signals during Dynamic Decision-Making in Humans Open
A successful class of models link decision-making to brain signals by assuming that evidence accumulates to a decision threshold. These evidence accumulation models have identified neuronal activity that appears to reflect sensory evidence…
View article: Changes of mind after movement onset: a motor-state dependent decision-making process
Changes of mind after movement onset: a motor-state dependent decision-making process Open
Decision-making is traditionally described as a cognitive process of deliberation followed by commitment to an action choice, preceding the planning and execution of the chosen action. However, this is challenged by recent data suggesting …
View article: Shared population-level dynamics in monkey premotor cortex during solo action, joint action and action observation
Shared population-level dynamics in monkey premotor cortex during solo action, joint action and action observation Open
Studies of neural population dynamics of cell activity from monkey motor areas during reaching show that it mostly represents the generation and timing of motor behavior. We compared neural dynamics in dorsal premotor cortex (PMd) during t…
View article: Unified neural dynamics of decisions and actions in the cerebral cortex and basal ganglia
Unified neural dynamics of decisions and actions in the cerebral cortex and basal ganglia Open
Several theoretical models suggest that deciding about actions and executing them are not completely distinct neural mechanisms but instead two modes of an integrated dynamical system. Here, we investigate this proposal by examining how ne…
View article: Evidence and urgency related EEG signals during dynamic decision-making in humans
Evidence and urgency related EEG signals during dynamic decision-making in humans Open
A successful class of models link decision-making to brain signals by assuming that evidence accumulates to a decision threshold. These evidence accumulation models have identified neuronal activity that appears to reflect sensory evidence…