The basal ganglia and cortex implement optimal decision making between alternative actions.

Journal article

Neurophysiological studies have identified a number of brain regions critically involved in solving the problem of action selection or decision making. In the case of highly practiced tasks, these regions include cortical areas hypothesized to integrate evidence supporting alternative actions and the basal ganglia, hypothesized to act as a central switch in gating behavioral requests. However, despite our relatively detailed knowledge of basal ganglia biology and its connectivity with the cor...

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Authors: Bogacz, R; Gurney, K

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Neural computation
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 442-477
• Publication date: 2007-02-01
• DOI: 10.1162/neco.2007.19.2.442
• EISSN: 1530-888X
• ISSN: 0899-7667
• Language: English
• Keywords: Decision Making; Cerebral Cortex; Neural Pathways; Basal Ganglia; Reaction Time; Judgment; Algorithms; Models, Neurological; Bayes Theorem; Humans; Nerve Net