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Deciding While Acting—Mid-Movement Decisions Are More Strongly Affected by Action Probability than Reward Amount

Philipp Ulbrich and Alexander Gail
eNeuro 24 March 2023, 10 (4) ENEURO.0240-22.2023; https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0240-22.2023
Philipp Ulbrich
1Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, German Primate Center—Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
2Faculty of Biology and Psychology, Georg-August University, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
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Alexander Gail
1Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, German Primate Center—Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
2Faculty of Biology and Psychology, Georg-August University, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
3Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Georg-August University, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
4Primate Cognition, Leibniz ScienceCampus, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0240-22.2023
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36963835
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  • Received June 22, 2022
  • Revision received February 21, 2023
  • Accepted February 24, 2023
  • Published online March 24, 2023.
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Copyright © 2023 Ulbrich and Gail This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.

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  1. Philipp Ulbrich1,2 and
  2. Alexander Gail1,2,3,4
  1. 1Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, German Primate Center—Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
  2. 2Faculty of Biology and Psychology, Georg-August University, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
  3. 3Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Georg-August University, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
  4. 4Primate Cognition, Leibniz ScienceCampus, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
  1. Correspondence should be addressed to Alexander Gail at agail{at}gwdg.de.
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Author contributions

  1. Author contributions: P.U. and A.G. designed research; P.U. performed research; P.U. analyzed data; P.U. and A.G. wrote the paper.

Disclosures

  • The authors declare no competing financial interests.

  • This work was supported by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) Grants SFB 889 (Cellular Mechanisms of Sensory Processing; project C4) and SFB 1528 (Cognition of Interaction; projects C05 and Z01); and by the European Commission, Plan4Act consortium (Grant H2020-FETPROACT-16 732266; project WP1).

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  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)

    SFB 889; SFB 1528
  • European Commission (EC)

    H2020-FETPROACT-16 732266

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