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TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES
Volume 42, Issue 12, Pages 848-860Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2019.10.001
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- National Institutes of Health
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The marriage of cognitive neurophysiology and mathematical psychology to understand decision-making has been exceptionally productive. This interdisciplinary area is based on the proposition that particular neurons or circuits instantiate the accumulation of evidence specified by mathematical models of sequential sampling and stochastic accumulation. This linking proposition has earned widespread endorsement. Here, a brief survey of the history of the proposition precedes a review of multiple conundrums and paradoxes concerning the accuracy, precision,and transparency of that linking proposition. Correctly establishing how abstract models of decision-making are instantiated by particular neural circuits would represent a remarkable accomplishment in mapping mind to brain. Failing would reveal challenging limits for cognitive neuroscience.This is such a vigorous area of research because so much is at stake.
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