TY - JOUR
T1 - Dissociable neural mechanisms track evidence accumulation for selection of attention versus action
AU - Shenhav, Amitai
AU - Straccia, Mark A.
AU - Musslick, Sebastian
AU - Cohen, Jonathan D.
AU - Botvinick, Matthew M.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was funded by a postdoctoral fellowship from the CV Starr Foundation (A.S.), a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence grant P20GM103645 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (A.S.), an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (M.A.S.), and by the John Templeton Foundation.
Funding Information:
We are grateful to Michael Frank, Harrison Ritz, and Avi Vaidya for feedback on an earlier draft of this manuscript, and Carolyn Dean Wolf for graphical assistance. This work was funded by a postdoctoral fellowship from the CV Starr Foundation (A.S.), a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence grant P20GM103645 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (A.S.), an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (M.A.S.), and by the John Templeton Foundation. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the John Templeton Foundation.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 The Author(s).
PY - 2018/12/1
Y1 - 2018/12/1
N2 - Decision-making is typically studied as a sequential process from the selection of what to attend (e.g., between possible tasks, stimuli, or stimulus attributes) to which actions to take based on the attended information. However, people often process information across these various levels in parallel. Here we scan participants while they simultaneously weigh how much to attend to two dynamic stimulus attributes and what response to give. Regions of the prefrontal cortex track information about the stimulus attributes in dissociable ways, related to either the predicted reward (ventromedial prefrontal cortex) or the degree to which that attribute is being attended (dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, dACC). Within the dACC, adjacent regions track correlates of uncertainty at different levels of the decision, regarding what to attend versus how to respond. These findings bridge research on perceptual and value-based decision-making, demonstrating that people dynamically integrate information in parallel across different levels of decision-making.
AB - Decision-making is typically studied as a sequential process from the selection of what to attend (e.g., between possible tasks, stimuli, or stimulus attributes) to which actions to take based on the attended information. However, people often process information across these various levels in parallel. Here we scan participants while they simultaneously weigh how much to attend to two dynamic stimulus attributes and what response to give. Regions of the prefrontal cortex track information about the stimulus attributes in dissociable ways, related to either the predicted reward (ventromedial prefrontal cortex) or the degree to which that attribute is being attended (dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, dACC). Within the dACC, adjacent regions track correlates of uncertainty at different levels of the decision, regarding what to attend versus how to respond. These findings bridge research on perceptual and value-based decision-making, demonstrating that people dynamically integrate information in parallel across different levels of decision-making.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41467-018-04841-1
DO - 10.1038/s41467-018-04841-1
M3 - Article
C2 - 29950596
AN - SCOPUS:85049127481
SN - 2041-1723
VL - 9
JO - Nature communications
JF - Nature communications
IS - 1
M1 - 2485
ER -