Semantic Apparatus – Adaptive circuit dynamics across human cortex during evidence accumulation in changing environments

Cited by Lee Sonogan

Adaptive Brain Circuits | Adaptive Brain Lab

Abstact by Peter R. Murphy,Niklas Wilming,Diana C. Hernandez-Bocanegra,Genis Prat-Ortega &Tobias H. Donner 

Many decisions under uncertainty entail the temporal accumulation of evidence that informs about the state of the environment. When environments are subject to hidden changes in their state, maximizing accuracy and reward requires non-linear accumulation of evidence. How this adaptive, non-linear computation is realized in the brain is unknown. We analyzed human behavior and cortical population activity (measured with magnetoencephalography) recorded during visual evidence accumulation in a changing environment. Behavior and decision-related activity in cortical regions involved in action planning exhibited hallmarks of adaptive evidence accumulation, which could also be implemented by a recurrent cortical microcircuit. Decision dynamics in action-encoding parietal and frontal regions were mirrored in a frequency-specific modulation of the state of the visual cortex that depended on pupil-linked arousal and the expected probability of change. These findings link normative decision computations to recurrent cortical circuit dynamics and highlight the adaptive nature of decision-related feedback to the sensory cortex.

Publication: Nature Nueroscience (Peer-Reviewed Journal)

Pub Date: 26 April 2021 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-021-00839-z

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-021-00839-z (Plenty more sections, figures and refferences in the article)

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