Decision making: How the past guides the future in frontal cortex

Bharath Chandra Talluri; Anke Braun; T H Donner

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2021.01.020

Decision making: How the past guides the future in frontal cortex

Curr Biol. 2021 Mar 22;31(6):R303-R306. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.01.020.

Authors

Bharath Chandra Talluri¹, Anke Braun², T H Donner³

Affiliations

¹ Section Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Section Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany. Electronic address: [email protected].
³ Section Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Neurophysiology and Pathophysiology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 33756146
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.01.020

Abstract

Our judgments of our environment are often shaped by heuristics and prior experience. New research shows that the resulting biases are encoded, and combined with new sensory input, by groups of neurons in the frontal cortex during decisions under uncertainty.

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MeSH terms

Decision Making*
Frontal Lobe
Heuristics*
Judgment
Uncertainty