And because they serve as a signal that a big reward might be close by, it is advantageous that novel stimuli command our attention.
Importantly, by retrieving past episodes that resemble our present situation, we can predict what is likely to happen next, thus anticipating forthcoming stimuli and advantageous responses learned from past outcomes.
A high absolute spike-timing precision is advantageous for precisely encoding stimulus-based relative interval durations.
It is now well established that individual cells in a population can differ significantly in their response to environmental stimuli, which is advantageous in fluctuating environments [5], [35], [45], [56], [57].
If the system could make use of such information, yet remain responsive to the changing stimulus, it would be advantageous.
Advantageous wagering decreased with both decreasing stimulus visibility (effect of visibility; F 2,24) = 99.87, p < .0001) and with increasing wager size (effect of wager; F 3,36) = 10.71, p < .0001; Fig. 3b), closely matching the predictions of the model (Fig. 3a).
In addition, to explain millisecond delays in activation between areas and stimulus types, it seems advantageous to recur to neurocognitive (rather than abstract cognitive) concepts, such as that of synfire chains mechanistically implementing delay lines in a neurobiologically plausible manner (Shmiel et al., 2005).
These non-covalently linked assemblies carry some advantageous features such as dynamic and stimulus-responsive structures for interfacing with biological systems and particularly for use as drug carriers.
For example, if equivalent reductions in food intake could be achieved through general response-inhibition training using non-food stimuli, this would be advantageous as it would avoid exposing at-risk individuals to high-incentive food cues, which alone can increase food consumption (Fedoroff, Polivy, & Herman, 1997; Lawrence et al., 2012).
Here we propose a signal detection model which predicts that advantageous wagers placed on the identity of preceding stimuli are affected by loss aversion, despite stimulus visibility remaining constant.
In the absence of cholinergic neuromodulation, PV BCs are optimally tuned to transfer information at theta frequency, which might be advantageous in encoding the onset of salient stimuli [43].
