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Kara D. McGaughey

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NeuroscienceeLifePeer-reviewedJul 27, 2026

Sensory adaptation and pupil-linked arousal support flexible evidence accumulation during perceptual decision making

Kara D. McGaughey, Joshua I. Gold

The paper shows that sensory adaptation and arousal-related changes contribute to flexible evidence accumulation during perceptual decisions, with adaptation affecting evidence encoding and arousal influencing the accumulation process.

DOI 10.7554/elife.110685

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NeuroscienceJournal of NeurosciencePeer-reviewedAug 11, 2021

Dynamic Representation of the Subjective Value of Information

Kenji Kobayashi, Sangil Lee, Alexandre L. S. Filipowicz…·Matthew R. Nassar

The paper investigates how the brain represents and updates the value of information (VOI) during decision-making using fMRI and a modified beads task.

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