Cortical Lifelogging: The Posterior Parietal Cortex as Sensory History Buffer

Malamati Bitzidou; Michael R Bale; Miguel Maravall

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2018.04.002

Cortical Lifelogging: The Posterior Parietal Cortex as Sensory History Buffer

Neuron. 2018 Apr 18;98(2):249-252. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2018.04.002.

Authors

Malamati Bitzidou¹, Michael R Bale¹, Miguel Maravall²

Affiliations

¹ Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
² Sussex Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. Electronic address: m.maravall@sussex.ac.uk.

Abstract

To compare information and reach decisions effectively, our brain uses multiple heuristics, which can, however, induce biases in behavior. An elegant study by Akrami et al. (2018) finds evidence for one such heuristic in a sensory-based comparison task and identifies its location to the posterior parietal cortex.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Animals
Decision Making / physiology*
Heuristics / physiology*
Humans
Parietal Lobe / cytology
Parietal Lobe / physiology*
Sensory Thresholds / physiology*

Grants and funding

MR/P006639/1/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom