Relation between belief and performance in perceptual decision making

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Drugowitsch, Jan ^a,b,c   Moreno Bote, Rubén ^d,e   Pouget, Alexandre ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d PARC SANITARI SANT JOAN DE DÉU   (Spain)

^e CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED DE SALUD MENTAL CIBERSAM   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; META COGNITION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOMETRY; TASK PERFORMANCE; ALGORITHM; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

ALGORITHMS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CULTURE; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84901217821     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096511     Document Type: Article

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