Choice-related cortical activity may only reflect top-down feedback rather than causal involvement

Evidence

Finally, choice-related activity may not reflect a casual contribution of the auditory cortex to decision-making but may simply reflect feedback from higher choice-sensitive areas (Nienborg and Cumming 2009 ) or the structure of the correlated noise (Nienborg et al. 2012 ). — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 4885

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Undermines a common shortcut: apparent choice coding in sensory cortex may be readout of hierarchical feedback rather than the decision locus itself.
• XREF: connects to: Motivated reasoning engages different brain circuitry than neutral reasoning. — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 103