Nature Communications (Jan 2022)

Transient neuronal suppression for exploitation of new sensory evidence

  • Maxwell Shinn,
  • Daeyeol Lee,
  • John D. Murray,
  • Hyojung Seo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27697-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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While evidence is constantly changing during real-world decisions, little is known about how the brain deals with such changes. Here, the authors show that the brain strategically suppresses motor output via the frontal eye fields in response to stimulus changes.