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The role of posterior parietal cortex in multisensory decision-making
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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.(...)