Evidence map›Paper›PMID 31704180›Full record

ReviewTrends in neurosciences2019

Accumulators, Neurons, and Response Time.

Jeffrey D Schall

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In one paragraph

Review in Trends in neurosciences, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
36citing papers in PubMed
5.4field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
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

36 citing papers in PubMed, 73 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Frontocentral Neural Dynamics Reflect Decisions about When to Act.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  3. No Central Executive? Decision Formation Through Multi-Area Population Dynamics.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  5. Factorial variation of saccade vigor with dual decision processes.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  8. In simple but challenging search tasks, most errors are stochastic.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024
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  11. An Accumulating Neural Signal Underlying Binocular Rivalry Dynamics.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jeffrey D SchallCenter for Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience, Vanderbilt Vision Research Center, and Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240, USA. Electronic address: jeffrey.d.schall@vanderbilt.edu.
Vanderbilt University · US

Funding

SACCADE TARGET SELECTION-FRONTAL CORTEXR01EY008890 · NEI · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI WOODMAN, GEOFFREY F · 1991 to 2018
$7.4M
NEURAL CONTROL OF VOLUNTARY MOVEMENTR01MH055806 · NIMH · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI SCHALL, JEFFREY D · 1996 to 2016
$5.2M
Stochastic Models of Visual SearchR01EY021833 · NEI · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI LOGAN, GORDON DENNIS, PALMERI, THOMAS · 2011 to 2023
$3.3M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY008890NEI NIH HHS R01 EY021833NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH055806
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The marriage of cognitive neurophysiology and mathematical psychology to understand decision-making has been exceptionally productive. This interdisciplinary area is based on the proposition that particular neurons or circuits instantiate the accumulation of evidence specified by mathematical models of sequential sampling and stochastic accumulation. This linking proposition has earned widespread endorsement. Here, a brief survey of the history of the proposition precedes a review of multiple conundrums and paradoxes concerning the accuracy, precision, and transparency of that linking proposition. Correctly establishing how abstract models of decision-making are instantiated by particular neural circuits would represent a remarkable accomplishment in mapping mind to brain. Failing would reveal challenging limits for cognitive neuroscience. This is such a vigorous area of research because so much is at stake.

Indexed as

Models, NeurologicalModels, PsychologicalReaction TimeAnimalsBrainDecision MakingHumansMind-Body Relations, MetaphysicalNeuronsPsychophysiologydecision-makinglinking propositionmind-brain problemmodel mimicrysequential samplingstochastic accumulator

Identifiers

PMID31704180
PMCPMC6981279
OpenAlexW2982732007

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Registered trials

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