title: Response to comment on "In monkeys making value-based decisions, LIP neurons encode cue salience and not action value".
abstract: Newsome et al. question neither our key result, that large-penalty cues elicited stronger responses than small-penalty cues, nor our key conclusion, that neurons early in the trial signaled cue salience and not action value. Instead, they focus on subsequent neuronal activity. The patterns of delay-period activity that they note can be explained by reference to experimental methodology.
authors.affiliation: Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University, Mellon Institute, 4400 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
authors.forename: Marvin L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Leathers
authors.forename: Carl R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Olson
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003463:Cues; D003657:Decision Making / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation / Q000502:physiology*; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D012438:Saccades / Q000502:physiology*; D012945:Social Values