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SUBMITTER: Adler WT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6258566 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Adler William T WT Ma Wei Ji WJ
PLoS computational biology 20181113 11
Humans can meaningfully report their confidence in a perceptual or cognitive decision. It is widely believed that these reports reflect the Bayesian probability that the decision is correct, but this hypothesis has not been rigorously tested against non-Bayesian alternatives. We use two perceptual categorization tasks in which Bayesian confidence reporting requires subjects to take sensory uncertainty into account in a specific way. We find that subjects do take sensory uncertainty into account ...[more]