Decision-making with multiple alternatives

By Anne K. Churchland, Roozbeh Kiani, Michael N. Shadlen. Nature Neuroscience, 2008

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Probabilistic population codes for Bayesian decision making (2008, methodology): “As can be seen, our model readily captures the performance and reaction time reported in monkeys whether the task involves two or four choices (data from Churchland et al., 2008).”
Value-based gain control: divisive normalization in parietal cortex (2011, background): “Similarly, in a motion-discrimination task with varying numbers of alternatives, LIP activity is lower when four choices are presented rather than two choices (Churchland et al., 2008).”
Attention, Intention, and Priority in the Parietal Lobe (2010, background): “…the process in estimating time (Janssen & Shadlen 2005, Leon & Shadlen 2003, Maimon & Assad 2006), the direction of motion of a noisy stimulus (Churchland et al. 2008, Roitman & Shadlen 2002, Shadlen & Newsome 2001), confidence (Kiani & Shadlen 2009), and probabilistic reasoning (Yang &…”
Neuronal Reward and Decision Signals: From Theories to Data. (2015, background): “Although typically tested with two choice options, ramping activity in LIP occurs also with four options (97).”
Decision making in recurrent neuronal circuits. (2008, methodology): “This model is easily extended to decisions with multiple alternatives (Usher and McClelland, 2001; McMillen and Holmes, 2006; Bogacz et al., 2007), which is not straightforward for the diffusion model (Niwa and Ditterich, 2008; Churchland et al., 2008).”
The speed-accuracy tradeoff: history, physiology, methodology, and behavior (2014, background): “Interestingly, this occurs even in tasks that do not include SAT manipulations, such as standard form visual search (Heitz et al., 2010) and the venerable random dot motion paradigm (Roitman and Shadlen, 2002; Ditterich, 2006a; Churchland et al., 2008).”
An Introduction to Model-Based Cognitive Neuroscience (2015, background): “Similar variability is observed in other cortical regions [2, 19, 59, 65, 66].”
Probabilistic vs. non-probabilistic approaches to the neurobiology of perceptual decision-making. (2012, background): “This work shows that probabilistic population codes can explain behavioral and neural data from [17,30] of monkeys performing a 2-target and 4-target RDM task.”
The Neurobiology of Decision: Consensus and Controversy (2009, neutral): “However, this increase is bounded, once firing rates cross a maximal threshold a saccade is initiated (Churchland et al., 2008; Roitman and Shadlen, 2002).”