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SUBMITTER: Caziot B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8606852 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Caziot Baptiste B Mamassian Pascal P
Journal of vision 20211101 12
Each perceptual decision is commonly attached to a judgment of confidence in the uncertainty of that decision. Confidence is classically defined as the estimate of the posterior probability of the decision to be correct, given the evidence. Here we argue that correctness is neither a valid normative statement of what observers should be doing after their perceptual decision nor a proper descriptive statement of what they actually do. Instead, we propose that perceivers aim at being self-consiste ...[more]