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Paradoxical evidence integration in rapid decision processes.


ABSTRACT: Decisions about noisy stimuli require evidence integration over time. Traditionally, evidence integration and decision making are described as a one-stage process: a decision is made when evidence for the presence of a stimulus crosses a threshold. Here, we show that one-stage models cannot explain psychophysical experiments on feature fusion, where two visual stimuli are presented in rapid succession. Paradoxically, the second stimulus biases decisions more strongly than the first one, contrary to predictions of one-stage models and intuition. We present a two-stage model where sensory information is integrated and buffered before it is fed into a drift diffusion process. The model is tested in a series of psychophysical experiments and explains both accuracy and reaction time distributions.

SUBMITTER: Ruter J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3280955 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Paradoxical evidence integration in rapid decision processes.

Rüter Johannes J   Marcille Nicolas N   Sprekeler Henning H   Gerstner Wulfram W   Herzog Michael H MH  

PLoS computational biology 20120216 2


Decisions about noisy stimuli require evidence integration over time. Traditionally, evidence integration and decision making are described as a one-stage process: a decision is made when evidence for the presence of a stimulus crosses a threshold. Here, we show that one-stage models cannot explain psychophysical experiments on feature fusion, where two visual stimuli are presented in rapid succession. Paradoxically, the second stimulus biases decisions more strongly than the first one, contrary  ...[more]

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