Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

Response outcomes gate the impact of expectations on perceptual decisions

  • Ainhoa Hermoso-Mendizabal,
  • Alexandre Hyafil,
  • Pavel E. Rueda-Orozco,
  • Santiago Jaramillo,
  • David Robbe,
  • Jaime de la Rocha

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14824-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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The authors use a combination of perceptual decision making in rats and computational modeling to explore the interplay of priors and sensory cues. They find that rats can learn to either alternate or repeat their actions based on reward likelihood and the influence of bias on their actions disappears after making an error.