ReviewNeuron2016
Decision Making and Sequential Sampling from Memory.
Review in Neuron, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 169 papers.
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169 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Sequential sampling from memory underlies perceptual decisions unyoked from actions.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
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- Attentional biases in self-control are associated with reward cue-related brain activity.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2026Article
- Behavioral Signatures of Post-Decisional Attention in Preferential Choice.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
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Abstract
Decisions take time, and as a rule more difficult decisions take more time. But this only raises the question of what consumes the time. For decisions informed by a sequence of samples of evidence, the answer is straightforward: more samples are available with more time. Indeed, the speed and accuracy of such decisions are explained by the accumulation of evidence to a threshold or bound. However, the same framework seems to apply to decisions that are not obviously informed by sequences of evidence samples. Here, we proffer the hypothesis that the sequential character of such tasks involves retrieval of evidence from memory. We explore this hypothesis by focusing on value-based decisions and argue that mnemonic processes can account for regularities in choice and decision time. We speculate on the neural mechanisms that link sampling of evidence from memory to circuits that represent the accumulated evidence bearing on a choice. We propose that memory processes may contribute to a wider class of decisions that conform to the regularities of choice-reaction time predicted by the sequential sampling framework.
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