#  Cortical Ensemble Dynamics of Naturalistic Decision-making 

 



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 **September 29, 2015** 

 12:00PM - 12:00PM EDT 

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 **NW 243**  



 

 



 

Don Katz (Brandeis)  
  
Most of life’s choices are made suddenly, and at variable delays following stimulus presentation. In this talk, I will reveal choice-related neural ensemble activity to be consistent with this description: whereas by standard single-neuron analyses cortical responses to tastes appear to increasingly predict upcoming consumption decisions (i.e., reflect stimulus palatability) across the 500 ms preceding the onset of ingestive behaviors, analysis of simultaneously-recorded neural ensembles reveals this choice-related activity to appear in nearly instantaneous, coherent ensemble state transitions. Furthermore, these ensemble transitions into choice-related firing, analyzed in single trials, accurately predict the timing of naturalistic choice behavior. These data suggest a novel, dynamical characterization of perceptual neural processing.



 

 



 

 

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