Distinct effects of prefrontal and parietal cortex inactivations on an accumulation of evidence task in the rat

Numerous brain regions have been shown to have neural correlates of gradually accumulating evidence for decision-making, but the causal roles of these regions in decisions driven by accumulation of evidence have yet to be determined. Here, in rats performing an auditory evidence accumulation task, w...

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Main Authors: Jeffrey C Erlich, Bingni W Brunton, Chunyu A Duan, Timothy D Hanks, Carlos D Brody
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2015-04-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/05457