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Piercing of Consciousness as a Threshold-Crossing Operation.
Article in Current biology : CB, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.
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- Bayesian nonparametric models characterize instantaneous strategies in a competitive dynamic game.Nature communications · 2019Article
- The EEG signature of sensory evidence accumulation during decision formation closely tracks subjective perceptual experience.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Intrinsic timescales of sensory integration for motion perception.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- The Interaction Between Elapsed Time and Decision Accuracy Differs Between Humans and Rats.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2019Article
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- Psychophysical reverse correlation reflects both sensory and decision-making processes.Nature communications · 2018Article
- Comparison of Decision-Related Signals in Sensory and Motor Preparatory Responses of Neurons in Area LIP.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2018Article
- Antagonistic Interactions Between Microsaccades and Evidence Accumulation Processes During Decision Formation.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2018Article
- The Active Inference Approach to Ecological Perception: General Information Dynamics for Natural and Artificial Embodied Cognition.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2018Article
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Abstract
Many decisions arise through an accumulation of evidence to a terminating threshold. The process, termed bounded evidence accumulation (or drift diffusion), provides a unified account of decision speed and accuracy, and it is supported by neurophysiology in human and animal models. In many situations, a decision maker may not communicate a decision immediately and yet feel that at some point she had made up her mind. We hypothesized that this occurs when an accumulation of evidence reaches a termination threshold, registered, subjectively, as an "aha" moment. We asked human participants to make perceptual decisions about the net direction of dynamic random dot motion. The difficulty and viewing duration were controlled by the experimenter. After indicating their choice, participants adjusted the setting of a clock to the moment they felt they had reached a decision. The subjective decision times (t
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