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. 2023 Dec;51(4):351-352.
doi: 10.3758/s13420-022-00569-7. Epub 2023 Jan 17.

Accumulating evidence by sampling from temporally organized memory

Zoran Tiganj  1   2
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Accumulating evidence by sampling from temporally organized memory

Zoran Tiganj. Learn Behav. 2023 Dec.

Abstract

A recent study by Shushruth et al. (2022, Current Biology 32[9], 1949-1960) demonstrated that monkeys postpone evidence accumulation until the relevant motor actions are revealed and then sequentially sample the evidence from memory. Here, we reflect on the insights this work provides into reinforcement learning in evidence accumulation tasks and neural mechanisms for the temporal organization of memory.

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