Selective attention increases choice certainty in human decision making

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Zizlsperger, Leopold ^a   Sauvigny, Thomas ^a,b   Haarmeier, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PROBABILITY; RESPONSE TIME; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOLUNTEER;

ADULT; ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONS; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REACTION TIME; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864022718     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041136     Document Type: Article

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