Decisions about decisions

Wako Yoshida; Ben Seymour

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2014.01.030

Decisions about decisions

Neuron. 2014 Feb 5;81(3):468-70. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2014.01.030.

Authors

Wako Yoshida¹, Ben Seymour²

Affiliations

¹ Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, Kyoto 619-0288, Japan. Electronic address: yoshida@atr.jp.
² Center for Information and Neural Networks, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Osaka 565-0871, Japan; Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, UK. Electronic address: bjs49@cam.ac.uk.

PMID: 24507185
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2014.01.030

Abstract

A major puzzle of decision making is how the brain decides which decision system to use at any one time. In this issue of Neuron, Lee et al. (2014) provide a theoretical, behavioral, and neurobiological account of a prefrontal reliability-based arbitration system.

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MeSH terms

Brain / physiology*
Brain Mapping*
Female
Humans
Learning / physiology*
Male
Models, Neurological*