Topics Covered
- Neurobiology
- Decision making
- Neural mechanisms of decision making
- Perceptual decisions
- Representation of evidence in visual cortex (area MT/V5)
- Direction selective neurons
- Representation of accumulated evidence in parietal cortex
- Lateral intraparietal area (LIP)
- Bounded evidence accumulation
- Diffusion models of decision making
- Confidence and "degree of belief"
- Post-decision wagering
- Probabilistic reasoning
- A neural mechanism for reasoning
- log likelihood ratio
- Decision making as a window on cognitive function in general
- Intentional framework for information processing
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Shadlen, M.N. (2011, August 16). The neurobiology of decision making: a window on cognition [Video file]. In
The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved October 4, 2023, from
https://hstalks.com/bs/2066/.
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Published on August 16, 2011
Financial Disclosures
- Prof. Michael N. Shadlen has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.