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Evidence Accumulator Or Decision Threshold - Which Cortical Mechanism Are We Observing?, Patrick Simen
Evidence Accumulator Or Decision Threshold - Which Cortical Mechanism Are We Observing?, Patrick Simen
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Most psychological models of perceptual decision making are of the accumulation-to- threshold variety. The neural basis of accumulation in parietal and prefrontal cortex is therefore a topic of great interest in neuroscience. In contrast, threshold mechanisms have received less attention, and their neural basis has usually been sought in subcortical structures. Here I analyze a model of a decision threshold that can be implemented in the same cortical areas as evidence accumulators, and whose behavior bears on two open questions in decision neuroscience: (1) When ramping activity is observed in a brain region during decision making, does it reflect evidence …