The importance of urgency in decision making based on dynamic information

• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009455
• Publication Date: 2021-10-04T22:02:02Z
• Authors: Lorenzo Ferrucci; Aldo Genovesio; Encarni Marcos
• Keywords: Mnemonic; Memorization; SIGNAL (programming language)

A standard view in the literature is that decisions are result of a process accumulates evidence favor each alternative until such accumulation reaches threshold and decision made. However, this has been recently questioned by an proposal suggests that, instead accumulated, combined with urgency signal. Both theories have mathematically formalized supported variety decision-making tasks constant information. recently, changing information shown to be more effective study dynamics making. Recent research using one tasks, tokens task, better described mechanism than one. results could depend on task where all fundamental was noiseless always present, favoring non-integration, as Here, we wanted address whether same conclusions were also experimental paradigm which sensory removed shortly after it provided, making working memory necessary properly perform task. show under condition, participants’ behavior explained urgency-gating low-pass filters mnemonic combines signal grows time but not integrates Thus, our supports idea certain situations dynamic information,