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SUBMITTER: Soltani A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4853436 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Soltani Alireza A Khorsand Peyman P Guo Clara C Farashahi Shiva S Liu Janet J
Nature communications 20160426
Decision making often requires simultaneously learning about and combining evidence from various sources of information. However, when making inferences from these sources, humans show systematic biases that are often attributed to heuristics or limitations in cognitive processes. Here we use a combination of experimental and modelling approaches to reveal neural substrates of probabilistic inference and corresponding biases. We find systematic deviations from normative accounts of inference whe ...[more]