title: Perceptual decision neurosciences - a model-based review.
abstract: In this review we summarize findings published over the past 10 years focusing on the neural correlates of perceptual decision-making. Importantly, this review highlights only studies that employ a model-based approach, i.e., they use quantitative cognitive models in combination with neuroscientific data. The model-based approach allows capturing latent decision-making processes such as strategic adjustments of response thresholds and relate these to interindividual differences or single-trial blood-oxygenated level dependent (BOLD) functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) responses. The review shows that different cortico-subcortical networks are responsive to different latent decision-making processes. More concretely, we show that evidence accumulation is associated with a fronto-parietal network which is partly overlapping with choice bias in perceptual decision making. The setting of decision thresholds is associated with fronto-basal ganglia networks which are also found for choice bias. In sum, we argue that the model-based approach holds great promises to understand the neural correlates of latent cognitive processes.
authors: Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Institute for Psychological Research & Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
authors: M J
authors: MJ
authors: Mulder
authors: Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors: L
authors: L
authors: van Maanen
authors: Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Electronic address: buforstmann@gmail.com.
authors: B U
authors: BU
authors: Forstmann
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D003657:Decision Making / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008959:Models, Neurological; D010465:Perception / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: Drift Diffusion Model; Linear Ballistic Accumulator; evidence accumulation model; fMRI