Published in Alex Holcombe's blog
Author Alex O. Holcombe

The Cauchy distribution is a unimodal distribution with fatter tails than a Gaussian. (Fig 1 at right) Janssen & Shadlen (2005), Nature Neuroscience found that monkey LIP neuron activity followed the subjective hazard function of an objective bimodal probability density function, which goes up, down, then up again.