Seeing at a glance, smelling in a whiff: rapid forms of perceptual decision making

Uchida, N., Kepecs, A., Mainen, Z. F. (June 2006) Seeing at a glance, smelling in a whiff: rapid forms of perceptual decision making. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 7 (6). pp. 485-91. ISSN 1471-0048

Abstract

Intuitively, decisions should always improve with more time for the accumulation of evidence, yet psychophysical data show a limit of 200-300 ms for many perceptual tasks. Here, we consider mechanisms that favour such rapid information processing in vision and olfaction. We suggest that the brain limits some types of perceptual processing to short, discrete chunks (for example, eye fixations and sniffs) in order to facilitate the construction of global sensory images.

Item Type: Paper
Uncontrolled Keywords: Animals Brain physiology Decision Making physiology Humans Models Neurological Reaction Time Saccades physiology Smell physiology Visual Perception physiology
Subjects: bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > annotation > map annotation
organism description > animal behavior > olfactory
organism description > animal behavior > vision
CSHL Authors:
Communities: CSHL labs > Kepecs lab
CSHL labs > Mainen lab
Depositing User: CSHL Librarian
Date: June 2006
Date Deposited: 08 Dec 2011 20:22
Last Modified: 03 Dec 2014 17:49
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URI: https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/22919

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