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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 108(28): 11626-31, 2011 Jul 12.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21709222

RESUMO

We consider the mechanisms that enable decisions to be postponed for a period after the evidence has been provided. Using an information theoretic approach, we show that information about the forthcoming action becomes available from the activity of neurons in the medial premotor cortex in a sequential decision-making task after the second stimulus is applied, providing the information for a decision about whether the first or second stimulus is higher in vibrotactile frequency. The information then decays in a 3-s delay period in which the neuronal activity declines before the behavioral response can be made. The information then increases again when the behavioral response is required. We model this neuronal activity using an attractor decision-making network in which information reflecting the decision is maintained at a low level during the delay period, and is then selectively restored by a nonspecific input when the response is required. One mechanism for the short-term memory is synaptic facilitation, which can implement a mechanism for postponed decisions that can be correct even when there is little neuronal firing during the delay period before the postponed decision. Another mechanism is graded firing rates by different neurons in the delay period, with restoration by the nonspecific input of the low-rate activity from the higher-rate neurons still firing in the delay period. These mechanisms can account for the decision making and for the memory of the decision before a response can be made, which are evident in the activity of neurons in the medial premotor cortex.


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Tomada de Decisões/fisiologia , Modelos Neurológicos , Potenciais de Ação/fisiologia , Animais , Teoria da Decisão , Aprendizagem por Discriminação/fisiologia , Teoria da Informação , Macaca mulatta , Rememoração Mental/fisiologia , Córtex Motor/fisiologia , Neurônios/fisiologia , Transmissão Sináptica/fisiologia , Fatores de Tempo
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Trends Cogn Sci ; 15(2): 56-67, 2011 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21216655

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Rapid advances have recently been made in understanding how value-based decision-making processes are implemented in the brain. We integrate neuroeconomic and computational approaches with evidence on the neural correlates of value and experienced pleasure to describe how systems for valuation and decision-making are organized in the prefrontal cortex of humans and other primates. We show that the orbitofrontal and ventromedial prefrontal (VMPFC) cortices compute expected value, reward outcome and experienced pleasure for different stimuli on a common value scale. Attractor networks in VMPFC area 10 then implement categorical decision processes that transform value signals into a choice between the values, thereby guiding action. This synthesis of findings across fields provides a unifying perspective for the study of decision-making processes in the brain.


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Comportamento de Escolha/fisiologia , Tomada de Decisões/fisiologia , Prazer/fisiologia , Córtex Pré-Frontal/fisiologia , Recompensa , Animais , Humanos , Modelos Econômicos , Princípio do Prazer-Desprazer , Primatas
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