Temporal integration is a robust feature of perceptual decisions

• Published in: eLife Vol. 12
• Main Authors: Hyafil, Alexandre, de la Rocha, Jaime, Pericas, Cristina, Katz, Leor N, Huk, Alexander C, Pillow, Jonathan W
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 04.05.2023; eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
• Subjects: accumulation of evidence; Animals; Behavior; Decision Making; Discrimination, Psychological; Haplorhini; Humans; Mammals; motion perception; Neuroscience; Paradigms; Psychometrics; Psychophysics; Rats; Sensory integration; accumulation of evidence; rhesus macaque; motion perception; rat; decision-making; neuroscience; human
• ISSN: 2050-084X; 2050-084X
• DOI: 10.7554/eLife.84045

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-...