Statistical analysis of neural correlates in decision-making
Marina Martínez-Garcia · LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) · 2014
We investigated the neuronal processes which occur during a decision- making task based on a perceptual classi cation judgment. For this purpose we have analysed three di erent experimental paradigms (somatosensory, visual, and auditory) in two di erent species (monkey and rat), with the common goal of shedding light into the information carried by neurons. In particular, we focused on how the information content is preserved in the underlying neuronal activity over time. Furthermore we considered how the decision, the stimuli, and the con dence are encoded in memory and, when the experimental paradigm allowed it, how the attention modulates these features. Finally, we went one step further, and we investigated the interactions between brain areas that arise during the process of decision- making.