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Decisions can differ depending on the context that surrounds them. Analyses of the prefrontal cortex region of the monkey brain indicate that a dynamical process at the neuronal population level controls this behaviour. See Article p.78

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Figure 1: The experiment and its results.

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  1. Jeffrey C. Erlich and Carlos D. Brody are at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.,

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  2. C.D.B. is also at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.,

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Erlich, J., Brody, C. What to do and how. Nature 503, 45–47 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/503045a

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