Intention, action planning, and decision making in parietal-frontal circuits.

TL;DR: Optically imaged the spatial and temporal activity patterns of neuronal populations in mice performing a PPC-dependent task that combined a perceptual decision and memory-guided navigation in a virtual environment.

TL;DR: To better understand the reward circuitry in human brain, activation likelihood estimation (ALE) and parametric voxel-based meta-analyses (PVM) on 142 neuroimaging studies that examined brain activation in reward-related tasks in healthy adults were conducted.

TL;DR: It is found that attention to a stimulus in their joint receptive field leads to enhanced oscillatory coupling between the two areas, particularly at gamma frequencies, which may optimize the postsynaptic impact of spikes from one area upon the other, improving cross-area communication with attention.

TL;DR: It is suggested that driver inputs are the main conduits of information and that modulator inputs modify howDriver inputs are processed, and that these inputs to thalamus serve as efference copies.

TL;DR: The role of prefrontal cortex (PFC) in dynamic decision making in monkeys was investigated and it was found that neurons in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex encoded the animal's past decisions and payoffs, as well as the conjunction between the two, providing signals necessary to update the estimates of expected reward.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a framework for formation stabilization of multiple autonomous vehicles in a distributed fashion, where each vehicle is assumed to have simple dynamics, i.e., a double-integrator, with a directed (or an undirected) information flow over the formation graph of the vehicles.

TL;DR: In this paper, a cortical circuit mechanism of elemental decision computations is proposed, which depends on slow recurrent synaptic excitation balanced by fast feedback inhibition, which not only instantiates attractor states for forming categorical choices but also long transients for gradually accumulating evidence in favor of or against alternative options.

TL;DR: The present results indicate that this modulating effect of eye position may be a general one, as it is found in 3 types of responses in 2 cortical areas, and it is proposed that these eye position effects play an important role in making coordinate transformations for visually guided movement.