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SUBMITTER: Denison RN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6205425 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Denison Rachel N RN Adler William T WT Carrasco Marisa M Ma Wei Ji WJ
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20181008 43
Perceptual decisions are better when they take uncertainty into account. Uncertainty arises not only from the properties of sensory input but also from cognitive sources, such as different levels of attention. However, it is unknown whether humans appropriately adjust for such cognitive sources of uncertainty during perceptual decision-making. Here we show that, in a task in which uncertainty is relevant for performance, human categorization and confidence decisions take into account uncertainty ...[more]