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Weighing the evidence: how the brain makes a decision

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Kim and Shadlen investigate how neurons of the prefrontal cortex interpret slowly accumulating signals from visual cortex to make a perceptual decision.

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Figure 1: To earn a reward, monkeys had to decide the net direction of motion of a stimulus composed of variable fractions of coherently and randomly moving dots.

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  1. Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt Vision Research Center, Wilson Hall, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 37240, Tennessee, USA

    Jeffrey D. Schall

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Schall, J. Weighing the evidence: how the brain makes a decision. Nat Neurosci 2, 108–109 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/5663

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