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ArticleCell reports2025

A population representation of the confidence in a decision in the parietal cortex.

Ariel Zylberberg, Michael N Shadlen

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Article in Cell reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Prior Expectations Bias Confidence Judgments Through Parietal Alpha-Band Modulation.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  5. Computational and Neuronal Basis of Visual Confidence.Annual review of vision science · 2025
    Review
  6. Incorporation of a Cost of Deliberation Time in Perceptual Decision Making.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
    Article
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Ariel ZylberbergMortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; Virtual Confidence and Metacognition Laboratory, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: ariel.zylberberg@gmail.com.
Michael N ShadlenMortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; The Kavli Institute for Brain Science, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD, USA; Grossman Center for the Statistics of the Mind, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.

Funding

Computational and circuit mechanisms of decision makingR01NS113113 · NINDS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI SHADLEN, MICHAEL NEIL · 2019 to 2023
$2.2M
Uncovering the neural architecture underlying decisions abstracted from movementsR01MH122513 · NIMH · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI BICKEL, STEPHAN, KELLY, SIMON · 2020 to 2024
$1.9M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNIMH NIH HHS R01 MH122513NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS113113
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many decisions arise from a race between competing evidence accumulation processes that terminate upon reaching a threshold. We ask whether neurons supporting this accumulation also encode confidence-whether a choice is correct or incorrect. Monkeys performed a reaction-time random dot motion task while populations of neurons were recorded from the lateral intraparietal (LIP) area. Shortly before the choice report, LIP neurons with response fields overlapping the contralateral choice target (T

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Decision MakingParietal LobeSelf ConceptAnimalsBehavior, AnimalMacaca mulattaMaleMotionNeuronsReaction Timebalance-of-evidence hypothesisconfidenceCP: Neurosciencedecision makingdrift-diffusionlateral intraparietal areaLIPneuropixelsparietal cortex

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PMID40208792
PMCPMC12084876

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