Surprise leads to noisier perceptual decisions

i-Perception

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 112-120

  Garrido, Marta I ^a   Dolan, Raymond J ^a   Sahani, Maneesh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Change detection; Oddballs; Prediction; Sensitivity; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865071299     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20416695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/i0411     Document Type: Article

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