ReviewCurrent opinion in neurobiology2016
The importance of task design and behavioral control for understanding the neural basis of cognitive functions.
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- The Relative Accuracy of Different Methods for Measuring Mind Wandering Subtypes: A Systematic Review.Brain and behavior · 2025Pooled it
- Feature interference underlies a neuronal basis for the behavioral cost of task uncertainty.Nature neuroscience · 2026Article
- Open-Source Platform for Adjustable Training Regimes in Freely Moving and Head-Fixed Mice.eNeuro · 2026Article
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- Limitation of switching sensory information flow in flexible perceptual decision making.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Deep RL Needs Deep Behavior Analysis: Exploring Implicit Planning by Model-Free Agents in Open-Ended Environments.Advances in neural information processing systems · 2025Article
- Task interference as a neuronal basis for the cost of cognitive flexibility.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Behavioral read-out from population value signals in primate orbitofrontal cortex.Nature neuroscience · 2023Article
- Visuo-vestibular heading perception: a model system to study multi-sensory decision making.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
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- Neural Mechanisms That Make Perceptual Decisions Flexible.Annual review of physiology · 2023Review
- A practical guide for studying human behavior in the lab.Behavior research methods · 2023Article
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- Connecting the Brain to Itself through an Emulation.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2017Article
- Open-Source Joystick Manipulandum for Decision-Making, Reaching, and Motor Control Studies in Mice.eNeuroArticle
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Abstract
The success of systems neuroscience depends on the ability to forge quantitative links between neural activity and behavior. Traditionally, this process has benefited from the rigorous development and testing of hypotheses using tools derived from classical psychophysics and computational motor control. As our capacity for measuring neural activity improves, accompanied by powerful new analysis strategies, it seems prudent to remember what these traditional approaches have to offer. Here I present a perspective on the merits of principled task design and tight behavioral control, along with some words of caution about interpretation in unguided, large-scale neural recording studies. I argue that a judicious combination of new and old approaches is the best way to advance our understanding of higher brain function in health and disease.
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