ArticleNature communications2020
Confidence controls perceptual evidence accumulation.
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- Optimal metacognitive decision strategies in signal detection theory.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Review
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- Neural basis of concurrent deliberation toward a choice and confidence judgment.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- The confidence-noise confidence-boost (CNCB) model of confidence rating data.PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
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- Reaching Distance Influences Perceptual Decisions.The European journal of neuroscience · 2025Article
- The strength of confidence is involved in controlling the intensity of attentional allocation.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Touch-driven advantages in reaction time but not in performance in a cross-sensory comparison of reinforcement learning.Heliyon · 2025Article
- Exploring Meta-Reasoning Propositional Confidence in Conspiratorial Beliefs and Socio-Cognitive Polarization.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2025Article
- Initial Expectations and Confidence Affect the Formation of Novel Self-Beliefs and Their Revision.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2025Article
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- Effective connectivity predicts distributed neural coding of perceptual decision confidence, uncertainty, and speed.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Perceptual decisions are accompanied by feelings of confidence that reflect the likelihood that the decision was correct. Here we aim to clarify the relationship between perception and confidence by studying the same perceptual task across three different confidence contexts. Human observers were asked to categorize the source of sequentially presented visual stimuli. Each additional stimulus provided evidence for making more accurate perceptual decisions, and better confidence judgements. We show that observers' ability to set appropriate evidence accumulation bounds for perceptual decisions is strongly predictive of their ability to make accurate confidence judgements. When observers were not permitted to control their exposure to evidence, they imposed covert bounds on their perceptual decisions but not on their confidence decisions. This partial dissociation between decision processes is reflected in behaviour and pupil dilation. Together, these findings suggest a confidence-regulated accumulation-to-bound process that controls perceptual decision-making even in the absence of explicit speed-accuracy trade-offs.
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