| Paper: | PS-1A.5 | ||
| Session: | Poster Session 1A | ||
| Location: | H Lichthof | ||
| Session Time: | Saturday, September 14, 16:30 - 19:30 | ||
| Presentation Time: | Saturday, September 14, 16:30 - 19:30 | ||
| Presentation: | Poster | ||
| Publication: | 2019 Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, 13-16 September 2019, Berlin, Germany | ||
| Paper Title: | Abstract Choice Representations Generalize Between Task Contexts | ||
| Manuscript: | Click here to view manuscript | ||
| License: |  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.32470/CCN.2019.1208-0 | ||
| Authors: | Florian Sandhaeger, Nina Omejc, Anna-Antonia Pape, Markus Siegel, University of Tuebingen, Germany | ||
| Abstract: | Humans can make abstract choices independent of motor actions. It is unclear under which conditions, where and when in the brain abstract choices are represented, and whether these representations generalize to contexts in which choices are linked to actions. To disentangle sensory, decision, and motor stages, we measured MEG signals in 33 participants during variants of a sensorimotor decision-making task with known and unknown choice-response mapping. Using multivariate decoding, we found reliable stimulus, choice and response information with distinct cortical source distributions. Choice representations were invariant to whether the response mapping was known at the time of stimulus presentation. Our results suggest the presence of widespread abstract choice representations, independent of sensory and motor representations. | ||