title: Decision making: how the brain weighs the evidence.
abstract: The brain has to weigh incoming sensory evidence against prior beliefs, the relative weight given to each depending on the relative uncertainties. Neuroscience now shows how the human brain accomplishes this.
authors.affiliation: Computation and Neural Systems Group, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. dacremon@hss.caltech.edu
authors.forename: Mathieu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: d'Acremont
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bossaerts
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D035501:Uncertainty