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Annual Review of Neuroscience

Volume 44, 2021

Neurophysiology of Human Perceptual Decision-Making

Abstract

The discovery of neural signals that reflect the dynamics of perceptual decision formation has had a considerable impact. Not only do such signals enable detailed investigations of the neural implementation of the decision-making process but they also can expose key elements of the brain's decision algorithms. For a long time, such signals were only accessible through direct animal brain recordings, and progress in human neuroscience was hampered by the limitations of noninvasive recording techniques. However, recent methodological advances are increasingly enabling the study of human brain signals that finely trace the dynamics of the unfolding decision process. In this review, we highlight how human neurophysiological data are now being leveraged to furnish new insights into the multiple processing levels involved in forming decisions, to inform the construction and evaluation of mathematical models that can explain intra- and interindividual differences, and to examine how key ancillary processes interact with core decision circuits.

Keyword(s): cognitive modeling, EEG, evidence accumulation, fMRI, MEG, perceptual decision-making
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Neurophysiology of Human Perceptual Decision-Making
Annual Review of Neuroscience 44, 495 (2021); https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-neuro-092019-100200
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