CBGTPy: An extensible cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic framework for modeling biological decision making.

We introduce a toolbox for producing biologically realistic simulations of the cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic pathways during a variety of experimental tasks. The purpose is to foster the theory-experiment cycle, offering a tool for generating testable predictions of behavioral and neural responses that can be validated experimentally, in a framework that allows for simple updating as new experimental evidence emerges. We outline how our toolbox works and demonstrate its performance on a set of normative cognitive tasks.