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Neural circuits for evidence accumulation and decision making in larval zebrafish
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To make appropriate decisions, animals need to accumulate sensory evidence. Simple integrator models can explain many aspects of such behavior, but how the underlying computations are mechanistically implemented in the brain remains poorly understood. Here we approach this problem by adapting the random-dot motion discrimination paradigm, classically used in primate studies, to larval zebrafish. Using their innate optomotor response as a measure of decision making, we find that larval zebrafish accumulate and remember motion evidence over many seconds and that the behavior is in close agreement with a bounded leaky integrator model. Through the use of brain-wide functional imaging, we identify three neuronal clusters in the anterior hindbrain that are well suited to execute the underlying computations. By relating the dynamics within these structures to individual behavioral choices, we propose a biophysically plausible circuit arrangement in which an evidence integrator competes against a dynamic decision threshold to activate a downstream motor command.
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“Current models of zebrafish visuomotor transformations rely on correlation-based neural activity, lack realistic representations of the retina or motor systems (25, 29), omit the ability to manipulate neural connectivity, and exclude closed-loop observations of neural activation during behavior, which limits the integrative investigation of the system within its sensory and physical environment.”
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“These neural circuits include mainly several stages of the sensory and perceptual systems, some sensorimotor forebrain circuits, the optic tectum, the cerebellum, and various premotor centers and descending pathways in the brainstem and medulla”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Bahl, A., & Engert, F.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Bahl, Armin
- Venue
- Nature Neuroscience
- Published
- 2019-12-02
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 94-102
- ISSN
- 1097-6256 (ISSN-L)
- 1546-1726
- PMC
- PMC7295007
- OpenAlex
- W2991987583
- Cited by
- 166
- References
- 61
- Citations by year
- 2026: 28 · 2025: 31 · 2024: 28 · 2023: 22 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 30 · 2020: 11
- FWCI
- 8.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Nature Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- KOPS (University of Konstanz) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Human Frontier Science Program (LT000626/2016)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cell Biology › Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications
- Keywords
- evidence accumulation, decision-making, zebrafish larvae, optomotor response, decision threshold, motor command, neural circuits
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Brain, Decision Making, Larva, Models, Neurological, Neural Pathways, Neurons, Zebrafish
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