@ARTICLE{10.3389/fnins.2012.00056, AUTHOR={Shadlen, Michael and Roskies, Adina}, TITLE={The Neurobiology of Decision-Making and Responsibility: Reconciling Mechanism and Mindedness}, JOURNAL={Frontiers in Neuroscience}, VOLUME={6}, YEAR={2012}, URL={https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2012.00056}, DOI={10.3389/fnins.2012.00056}, ISSN={1662-453X}, ABSTRACT={This essay reviews recent developments in neurobiology which are beginning to expose the mechanisms that underlie some elements of decision-making that bear on attributions of responsibility. These “elements” have been mainly studied in simple perceptual decision tasks, which are performed similarly by humans and non-human primates. Here we consider the role of neural noise, and suggest that thinking about the role of noise can shift the focus of discussions of randomness in decision-making away from its role in enabling alternate possibilities and toward a potential grounding role for responsibility.} }