Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

Decisions are expedited through multiple neural adjustments spanning the sensorimotor hierarchy

  • Natalie A. Steinemann,
  • Redmond G. O’Connell,
  • Simon P. Kelly

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06117-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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When needed, we can speed up our decisions at the expense of accuracy. Here, the authors employ a novel human electrophysiology paradigm to show that hastened decisions are implemented through multiple, fundamentally distinct neural process adjustments across the sensorimotor hierarchy.