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SUBMITTER: Beck JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2742921 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Beck Jeffrey M JM Ma Wei Ji WJ Kiani Roozbeh R Hanks Tim T Churchland Anne K AK Roitman Jamie J Shadlen Michael N MN Latham Peter E PE Pouget Alexandre A
Neuron 20081201 6
When making a decision, one must first accumulate evidence, often over time, and then select the appropriate action. Here, we present a neural model of decision making that can perform both evidence accumulation and action selection optimally. More specifically, we show that, given a Poisson-like distribution of spike counts, biological neural networks can accumulate evidence without loss of information through linear integration of neural activity and can select the most likely action through a ...[more]