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Sequential sampling from memory underlies action selection during abstract decision-making.
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- Monkeys can identify pictures from words.PloS one · 2025Article
- Effector-dependent neural representations of perceptual decisions independent of motor actions and sensory modalities.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- The Hippocampus Preorders Movements for Skilled Action Sequences.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Lateral prefrontal cortex controls interplay between working memory and actions.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Abstract deliberation by visuomotor neurons in prefrontal cortex.Nature neuroscience · 2024Article
- Neural Correlates of Online Action Preparation.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- A Neural Decision Signal during Internal Sampling from Working Memory in Humans.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Sequential neuronal processing of number values, abstract decision, and action in the primate prefrontal cortex.PLoS biology · 2024Article
- Trial-history biases in evidence accumulation can give rise to apparent lapses in decision-making.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Accumulating evidence by sampling from temporally organized memory.Learning & behavior · 2023Article
- Dynamic spatial coding in parietal cortex mediates tactile-motor transformation.Nature communications · 2023Article
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Abstract
The study of perceptual decision-making in monkeys has provided insights into the process by which sensory evidence is integrated toward a decision. When monkeys make decisions with the knowledge of the motor actions the decisions bear upon, the process of evidence integration is instantiated by neurons involved in the selection of said actions. It is less clear how monkeys make decisions when unaware of the actions required to communicate their choice-what we refer to as "abstract" decisions. We investigated this by training monkeys to associate the direction of motion of a noisy random-dot display with the color of two targets. Crucially, the targets were displayed at unpredictable locations after the motion stimulus was extinguished. We found that the monkeys postponed decision formation until the targets were revealed. Neurons in the parietal association area LIP represented the integration of evidence leading to a choice, but as the stimulus was no longer visible, the samples of evidence must have been retrieved from short-term memory. Our results imply that when decisions are temporally unyoked from the motor actions they bear upon, decision formation is protracted until they can be framed in terms of motor actions.
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