In natural environments, choices frequently must be made on the basis of complex and ambiguous streams of sensory input. There are advantages inherent to rapid decision making. Choices are better grounded, however, if information is acquired and accumulated over time. In primate visual motion perception, sensory evidence is accumulated up to a limit, at which point the brain commits to a choice. Recalling the models evoked for primate visual perception, recent studies in the rat vibrissal sensorimotor system, using a number of behavioral paradigms, show that perceptual decision making is characterized by the integration of sensory evidence over time. In this integrative process, vibrissal primary somatosensory cortex (vS1 and vS2) act not as the integrator, but as the distributor of sensory information to downstream regions.

Making sense of sensory evidence in the rat whisker system / Fassihi, A.; Zuo, Y.; Diamond, M. E.. - In: CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY. - ISSN 0959-4388. - 60:(2020), pp. 76-83. [10.1016/j.conb.2019.11.012]

Making sense of sensory evidence in the rat whisker system

Fassihi, A.;Zuo, Y.;Diamond, M. E.
2020-01-01

Abstract

In natural environments, choices frequently must be made on the basis of complex and ambiguous streams of sensory input. There are advantages inherent to rapid decision making. Choices are better grounded, however, if information is acquired and accumulated over time. In primate visual motion perception, sensory evidence is accumulated up to a limit, at which point the brain commits to a choice. Recalling the models evoked for primate visual perception, recent studies in the rat vibrissal sensorimotor system, using a number of behavioral paradigms, show that perceptual decision making is characterized by the integration of sensory evidence over time. In this integrative process, vibrissal primary somatosensory cortex (vS1 and vS2) act not as the integrator, but as the distributor of sensory information to downstream regions.
2020
60
76
83
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2019.11.012
Fassihi, A.; Zuo, Y.; Diamond, M. E.
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