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Pupil-linked phasic arousal predicts a reduction of choice bias across species and decision domains
Decisions are often made by accumulating ambiguous evidence over time. The brain’s arousal systems are activated during such decisions. In previous work in humans, we found that evoked responses of arousal systems during decisions are reported by rapid dilations of the pupil and track a suppression...
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eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7297536/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32543372 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.54014 |
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author | de Gee, Jan Willem Tsetsos, Konstantinos Schwabe, Lars Urai, Anne E McCormick, David McGinley, Matthew J Donner, Tobias H |
author_facet | de Gee, Jan Willem Tsetsos, Konstantinos Schwabe, Lars Urai, Anne E McCormick, David McGinley, Matthew J Donner, Tobias H |
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description | Decisions are often made by accumulating ambiguous evidence over time. The brain’s arousal systems are activated during such decisions. In previous work in humans, we found that evoked responses of arousal systems during decisions are reported by rapid dilations of the pupil and track a suppression of biases in the accumulation of decision-relevant evidence (de Gee et al., 2017). Here, we show that this arousal-related suppression in decision bias acts on both conservative and liberal biases, and generalizes from humans to mice, and from perceptual to memory-based decisions. In challenging sound-detection tasks, the impact of spontaneous or experimentally induced choice biases was reduced under high phasic arousal. Similar bias suppression occurred when evidence was drawn from memory. All of these behavioral effects were explained by reduced evidence accumulation biases. Our results point to a general principle of interplay between phasic arousal and decision-making. |
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spelling | pubmed-72975362020-06-18 Pupil-linked phasic arousal predicts a reduction of choice bias across species and decision domains de Gee, Jan Willem Tsetsos, Konstantinos Schwabe, Lars Urai, Anne E McCormick, David McGinley, Matthew J Donner, Tobias H eLife Neuroscience Decisions are often made by accumulating ambiguous evidence over time. The brain’s arousal systems are activated during such decisions. In previous work in humans, we found that evoked responses of arousal systems during decisions are reported by rapid dilations of the pupil and track a suppression of biases in the accumulation of decision-relevant evidence (de Gee et al., 2017). Here, we show that this arousal-related suppression in decision bias acts on both conservative and liberal biases, and generalizes from humans to mice, and from perceptual to memory-based decisions. In challenging sound-detection tasks, the impact of spontaneous or experimentally induced choice biases was reduced under high phasic arousal. Similar bias suppression occurred when evidence was drawn from memory. All of these behavioral effects were explained by reduced evidence accumulation biases. Our results point to a general principle of interplay between phasic arousal and decision-making. eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2020-06-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7297536/ /pubmed/32543372 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.54014 Text en © 2020, de Gee et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Neuroscience de Gee, Jan Willem Tsetsos, Konstantinos Schwabe, Lars Urai, Anne E McCormick, David McGinley, Matthew J Donner, Tobias H Pupil-linked phasic arousal predicts a reduction of choice bias across species and decision domains |
title | Pupil-linked phasic arousal predicts a reduction of choice bias across species and decision domains |
title_full | Pupil-linked phasic arousal predicts a reduction of choice bias across species and decision domains |
title_fullStr | Pupil-linked phasic arousal predicts a reduction of choice bias across species and decision domains |
title_full_unstemmed | Pupil-linked phasic arousal predicts a reduction of choice bias across species and decision domains |
title_short | Pupil-linked phasic arousal predicts a reduction of choice bias across species and decision domains |
title_sort | pupil-linked phasic arousal predicts a reduction of choice bias across species and decision domains |
topic | Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7297536/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32543372 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.54014 |
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