ArticleFrontiers in psychology2016
Visibility Is Not Equivalent to Confidence in a Low Contrast Orientation Discrimination Task.
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- Modelling visibility judgments using models of decision confidence.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2021Article
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- The folded X-pattern is not necessarily a statistical signature of decision confidence.PLoS computational biology · 2019Article
- Temporal attention causes systematic biases in visual confidence.Scientific reports · 2019Article
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- Humans incorporate attention-dependent uncertainty into perceptual decisions and confidence.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
- Inflation versus filling-in: why we feel we see more than we actually do in peripheral vision.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Article
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Abstract
In several visual tasks, participants report that they feel confident about discrimination responses at a level of stimulation at which they would report not seeing the stimulus. How general and reliable is this effect? We compared subjective reports of discrimination confidence and subjective reports of visibility in an orientation discrimination task with varying stimulus contrast. Participants applied more liberal criteria for subjective reports of discrimination confidence than for visibility. While reports of discrimination confidence were more efficient in predicting trial accuracy than reports of visibility, only reports of visibility but not confidence were associated with stimulus contrast in incorrect trials. It is argued that the distinction between discrimination confidence and visibility can be reconciled with both the partial awareness hypothesis and higher order thought theory. We suggest that consciousness research would benefit from differentiating between subjective reports of visibility and confidence.
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