Context changes retrieval of prospective outcomes during decision deliberation.

ABSTRACT: Foreseeing the future outcomes is the art of decision-making. Substantial evidence shows that, during choice deliberation, the brain can retrieve prospective decision outcomes. However, decisions are seldom made in a vacuum. Context carries information that can radically affect the outcomes of a choice. Nevertheless, most investigations of retrieval processes examined decisions in isolation, disregarding the context in which they occur. Here, we studied how context shapes prospective outcome retrieval during deliberation. We designed a decision-making task where participants were presented with object-context pairs and made decisions which led to a certain outcome. We show during deliberation, likely outcomes were retrieved in transient patterns of neural activity, as early as 3 s before p

SUBMITTER: Goktepe-Kavis P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11663511 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature