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SUBMITTER: Cassey P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4081035 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cassey Peter P Heathcote Andrew A Brown Scott D SD
PLoS computational biology 20140703 7
Speed-accuracy tradeoff (SAT) is an adaptive process balancing urgency and caution when making decisions. Computational cognitive theories, known as "evidence accumulation models", have explained SATs via a manipulation of the amount of evidence necessary to trigger response selection. New light has been shed on these processes by single-cell recordings from monkeys who were adjusting their SAT settings. Those data have been interpreted as inconsistent with existing evidence accumulation theorie ...[more]