THE INTEGRATION OF EVIDENCE ACROSS MODALITIES IN THE BRAIN

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The role of posterior parietal cortex in multisensory decision-making

Publication . Raposo, David; Churchland, Anne; Costa, Rui

Making a decision consists of committing to a plan of action, usually selected between two or more competing alternatives. Numerous fields have studied the processes involved in decision-making including psychology, economics, philosophy and statistics, to name only a few. In neuroscience the study of decision-making has been extremely fruitful in recent years and has focused on two main aspects: (1) perceptual decisionmaking, interested in understanding how external information is perceived by the sensory systems and used to make decisions; (2) value based decision-making, interested in the mechanisms that cause and result from the association of subjective values to the possible outcomes of a decision.(...)

2016-11-21Tese de doutoramento

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SFRH/BD/51267/2010