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Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volume 40, 2017

The Role of the Lateral Intraparietal Area in (the Study of) Decision Making

Abstract

Over the past two decades, neurophysiological responses in the lateral intraparietal area (LIP) have received extensive study for insight into decision making. In a parallel manner, inferred cognitive processes have enriched interpretations of LIP activity. Because of this bidirectional interplay between physiology and cognition, LIP has served as fertile ground for developing quantitative models that link neural activity with decision making. These models stand as some of the most important frameworks for linking brain and mind, and they are now mature enough to be evaluated in finer detail and integrated with other lines of investigation of LIP function. Here, we focus on the relationship between LIP responses and known sensory and motor events in perceptual decision-making tasks, as assessed by correlative and causal methods. The resulting sensorimotor-focused approach offers an account of LIP activity as a multiplexed amalgam of sensory, cognitive, and motor-related activity, with a complex and often indirect relationship to decision processes. Our data-driven focus on multiplexing (and de-multiplexing) of various response components can complement decision-focused models and provides more detailed insight into how neural signals might relate to cognitive processes such as decision making.

Keyword(s): decision making, lateral intraparietal cortex, parietal, visual motion, visual perception
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The Role of the Lateral Intraparietal Area in (the Study of) Decision Making
Annual Review of Neuroscience 40, 349 (2017); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-neuro-072116-031508
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