Temporal integration is a robust feature of perceptual decisions.

ABSTRACT: Making informed decisions in noisy environments requires integrating sensory information over time. However, recent work has suggested that it may be difficult to determine whether an animal's decision-making strategy relies on evidence integration or not. In particular, strategies based on extrema-detection or random snapshots of the evidence stream may be difficult or even impossible to distinguish from classic evidence integration. Moreover, such non-integration strategies might be surprisingly common in experiments that aimed to study decisions based on integration. To determine whether temporal integration is central to perceptual decision-making, we developed a new model-based approach for comparing temporal integration against alternative 'non-integration' strategies for tasks in wh

SUBMITTER: Hyafil A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10205084 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature