Topic: midbrain reticular nucleus

Perceptual decision-making is crucial for survival, requiring the integration of dynamic sensory evidence from the environment with internal state variables (e.g. context, priors, value) to choose an appropriate action plan. Neural correlates of perceptual decisions are more distributed than once thought, having been found within the cortex, striatum, and superior colliculus (SC). Recent work has suggested a potentially novel node in this network - the midbrain reticular nucleus (MRN) - which was one of the few regions that encoded visual and action selection signals in a brain-wide survey of