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ArticleNeural computation2015

Visual Decisions in the Presence of Measurement and Stimulus Correlations.

Manisha Bhardwaj, Samuel Carroll, Wei Ji Ma, Krešimir Josić

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Article in Neural computation, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Manisha BhardwajDepartment of Mathematics, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77004, U.S.A. manisha@math.uh.edu.
Samuel CarrollDepartment of Mathematics, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77004, U.S.A. carroll@math.utah.edu.
Wei Ji MaCenter for Neural Science and Department of Psychology, New York University, NY 10003, U.S.A. weijima@nyu.edu.
Krešimir JosićDepartment of Biology and Biochemistry and Department of Mathematics, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77004, U.S.A. josic@math.uh.edu.

Funding

Vision Core Grant- Design and Fabrication ModuleP30EY013079 · NEI · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY · PI MOVSHON, J ANTHONY · 2000 to 2025
$14.2M
The role of short-term memory uncertainty in visual decision-makingR01EY020958 · NEI · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY · PI MA, WEI JI · 2010 to 2018
$2.6M
NEI NIH HHS P30 EY013079NEI NIH HHS R01 EY020958NEI NIH HHS R01EY020958
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Abstract

Humans and other animals base their decisions on noisy sensory input. Much work has been devoted to understanding the computations that underlie such decisions. The problem has been studied in a variety of tasks and with stimuli of differing complexity. However, how the statistical structure of stimuli, along with perceptual measurement noise, affects perceptual judgments is not well understood. Here we examine how correlations between the components of a stimulus-stimulus correlations-together with correlations in sensory noise, affect decision making. As an example, we consider the task of detecting the presence of a single or multiple targets among distractors. We assume that both the distractors and the observer's measurements of the stimuli are correlated. The computations of an optimal observer in this task are nontrivial yet can be analyzed and understood intuitively. We find that when distractors are strongly correlated, measurement correlations can have a strong impact on performance. When distractor correlations are weak, measurement correlations have little impact unless the number of stimuli is large. Correlations in neural responses to structured stimuli can therefore have a strong impact on perceptual judgments.

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Statistics as TopicAnimalsBiophysical PhenomenaDecision MakingDiscrimination, PsychologicalHumansModels, TheoreticalPhotic StimulationVisual Perception

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PMID26378875
PMCPMC4664601

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