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Abstract perceptual choice signals during action-linked decisions in the human brain.
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- Single-pulse TMS functional mapping of sensorimotor cortex during decision-making task.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- Effector-dependent neural representations of perceptual decisions independent of motor actions and sensory modalities.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Abstract deliberation by visuomotor neurons in prefrontal cortex.Nature 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
- Intracranial electroencephalography reveals effector-independent evidence accumulation dynamics in multiple human brain regions.Nature human behaviour · 2024Article
- Sequential neuronal processing of number values, abstract decision, and action in the primate prefrontal cortex.PLoS biology · 2024Article
- Neural representations of the content and production of human vocalization.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
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Abstract
Humans can make abstract choices independent of motor actions. However, in laboratory tasks, choices are typically reported with an associated action. Consequentially, knowledge about the neural representation of abstract choices is sparse, and choices are often thought to evolve as motor intentions. Here, we show that in the human brain, perceptual choices are represented in an abstract, motor-independent manner, even when they are directly linked to an action. We measured MEG signals while participants made choices with known or unknown motor response mapping. Using multivariate decoding, we quantified stimulus, perceptual choice, and motor response information with distinct cortical distributions. Choice representations were invariant to whether the response mapping was known during stimulus presentation, and they occupied a distinct representational space from motor signals. As expected from an internal decision variable, they were informed by the stimuli, and their strength predicted decision confidence and accuracy. Our results demonstrate abstract neural choice signals that generalize to action-linked decisions, suggesting a general role of an abstract choice stage in human decision-making.
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