Hierarchical reasoning by neural circuits in the frontal cortex

Humans process information hierarchically. In the presence of hierarchies, sources of failures are ambiguous. Humans resolve this ambiguity by assessing their confidence after one or more attempts. To understand the neural basis of this reasoning strategy, we recorded from dorsomedial frontal cortex...

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Main Authors: Sarafyazd, Morteza (Author), Jazayeri, Mehrdad (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Contributor), McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2019-11-15T18:29:34Z.
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