How do we effectively process the information arriving to our senses to make adaptive decisions and behave appropriately, and which brain areas are responsible? A new study combines multimodal noninvasive neuroimaging in humans to reveal the anatomical locus of efficient sensory evidence accumulation.
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Peters, M.A.K. Efficiently adding up our sensory evidence. Nat Hum Behav 4, 778–779 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-0857-2
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