Topic: temporal cues

When faced with challenging multi-step decisions, humans are unable to evaluate all branches of the decision tree simultaneously and instead rely on piecemeal hierarchical and counterfactual reasoning strategies. To investigate the neural basis of these cognitive strategies, we developed a challenging multi-step decision task for monkeys in which they had to track an invisible ball through a maze using partial cues about the times when the ball makes turns within the maze. Animals were able to use temporal cues to infer the ball’s exit point. To evaluate the animals’ decision strategy, we comp

In many real-world situations, sensory events of interest might appear at any moment requiring us to choose an appropriate action. This is especially challenging when stimuli are ambiguous or noisy, but a temporal cues can facilitated this process. The neural mechanisms underlying such temporally-uncertain, noise-embedded target discrimination and how warning cues dynamically adjust those mechanisms remains however unclear. We recently developed a neurally-informed (EEG), continuous bounded accumulation model, which, through adjustments to sensory criteria set on the evidence to be accumulated