Temporal regularities shape perceptual decisions and striatal dopamine signals.

ABSTRACT: Perceptual decisions should depend on sensory evidence. However, such decisions are also influenced by past choices and outcomes. These choice history biases may reflect advantageous strategies to exploit temporal regularities of natural environments. However, it is unclear whether and how observers can adapt their choice history biases to different temporal regularities, to exploit the multitude of temporal correlations that exist in nature. Here, we show that male mice adapt their perceptual choice history biases to different temporal regularities of visual stimuli. This adaptation was slow, evolving over hundreds of trials across several days. It occurred alongside a fast non-adaptive choice history bias, limited to a few trials. Both fast and slow trial history effects are well capture

SUBMITTER: Fritsche M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11330509 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature