Monkeys play the odds

M. James Nichols () and William T. Newsome ()
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M. James Nichols: Stanford School of Medicine
William T. Newsome: Stanford School of Medicine

Nature, 1999, vol. 400, issue 6741, 217-218

Abstract: Animals -- like humans -- are thought to make decisions based on the expected size and probability of rewards. A neural correlate of this behaviour has now been demonstrated by experiments in which rhesus monkeys have to switch their gaze to a particular target for a juice reward. The number of signals fired by neurons in the lateral intraparietal cortex is found to vary depending on the size of the expected reward.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1038/22221

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