Citation

Ma WJ, Jazayeri M. Annu. Rev. Neurosci. 2014; 37: 205-220.

Affiliation

Center for Neural Science and Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York 10003; email: weijima@nyu.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Annual Reviews)

DOI

10.1146/annurev-neuro-071013-014017

PMID

25032495

Abstract

Organisms must act in the face of sensory, motor, and reward uncertainty stemming from a pandemonium of stochasticity and missing information. In many tasks, organisms can make better decisions if they have at their disposal a representation of the uncertainty associated with task-relevant variables. We formalize this problem using Bayesian decision theory and review recent behavioral and neural evidence that the brain may use knowledge of uncertainty, confidence, and probability.

Language: en