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SUBMITTER: Ruter J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3280955 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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]