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ReviewCurrent opinion in neurobiology2019

Optimal models of decision-making in dynamic environments.

Zachary P Kilpatrick, William R Holmes, Tahra L Eissa, Krešimir Josić

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Review in Current opinion in neurobiology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Computational and Neuronal Basis of Visual Confidence.Annual review of vision science · 2025
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  5. Self-motion perception and sequential decision-making: where are we heading?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023
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  11. A Competition of Critics in Human Decision-Making.Computational psychiatry (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Zachary P KilpatrickDepartment of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA. Electronic address: zpkilpat@colorado.edu.
William R HolmesDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA; Department of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA; Quantitative Systems Biology Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
Tahra L EissaDepartment of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
Krešimir JosićDepartment of Mathematics, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA; Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA; Department of BioSciences, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA. Electronic address: josic@math.uh.edu.

Funding

CRCNS: Decision Making in Changing EnvironmentsR01MH115557 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI GOLD, JOSHUA I, JOSIC, KRESIMIR · 2017 to 2020
$1.6M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH115557
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nature is in constant flux, so animals must account for changes in their environment when making decisions. How animals learn the timescale of such changes and adapt their decision strategies accordingly is not well understood. Recent psychophysical experiments have shown humans and other animals can achieve near-optimal performance at two alternative forced choice (2AFC) tasks in dynamically changing environments. Characterization of performance requires the derivation and analysis of computational models of optimal decision-making policies on such tasks. We review recent theoretical work in this area, and discuss how models compare with subjects' behavior in tasks where the correct choice or evidence quality changes in dynamic, but predictable, ways.

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Decision MakingLearningAnimalsChoice BehaviorHumans

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PMID31326724
PMCPMC6859206

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