Frontal eye field neurons signal changes in decision criteria Export

@article{citeulike:6016372, abstract = {Flexible links between sensory stimuli and behavioral responses underlie many cognitive processes. One process that contributes to flexible decision-making is categorization. Some categories are innate or overlearned, but, in many cases, category boundaries represent flexible decision criteria that can shift on the fly to adapt to changes in the environment. The ability to shift category boundaries allows decision-making to adapt to changing circumstances. We found that monkeys were able to switch rapidly between two category boundaries when classifying the speed of a moving dot pattern and that neurons in monkey frontal eye field (FEF) changed their activity when the boundary changed. The responses of a subpopulation of FEF neurons that were sensitive to both stimulus and boundary speed were used to classify the stimuli as accurately as the monkeys' performance.}, author = {Ferrera, Vincent P. and Yanike, Marianna and Cassanello, Carlos}, citeulike-article-id = {6016372}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nn.2434}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nn.2434}, day = {25}, doi = {10.1038/nn.2434}, issn = {1097-6256}, journal = {Nature Neuroscience}, keywords = {choice, fef, signal-detection}, month = {October}, number = {11}, pages = {1458--1462}, posted-at = {2009-10-27 16:28:09}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Nature Publishing Group}, title = {Frontal eye field neurons signal changes in decision criteria}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nn.2434}, volume = {12}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:6016372 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6016372 N2 - Flexible links between sensory stimuli and behavioral responses underlie many cognitive processes. One process that contributes to flexible decision-making is categorization. Some categories are innate or overlearned, but, in many cases, category boundaries represent flexible decision criteria that can shift on the fly to adapt to changes in the environment. The ability to shift category boundaries allows decision-making to adapt to changing circumstances. We found that monkeys were able to switch rapidly between two category boundaries when classifying the speed of a moving dot pattern and that neurons in monkey frontal eye field (FEF) changed their activity when the boundary changed. The responses of a subpopulation of FEF neurons that were sensitive to both stimulus and boundary speed were used to classify the stimuli as accurately as the monkeys' performance. IS - 11 JF - Nature Neuroscience SN - 1097-6256 EP - 1462 TI - Frontal eye field neurons signal changes in decision criteria PB - Nature Publishing Group VL - 12 SP - 1458 KW - choice KW - fef KW - signal-detection AU - Ferrera, Vincent AU - Yanike, Marianna AU - Cassanello, Carlos PY - 2009/10/25/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nn.2434 ER -