A model of subjective report and objective discrimination as categorical decisions in a vast representational space

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1641, 2014, Pages

  King, J R ^a,b,c   Dehaene, S ^a,b,d,e  

^a U992 ^*  (France)

^b NeuroSpin   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^e Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Biologie   (France)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Metacognition; Signal detection theory; Subjective reports; Subliminal; Two alternative forced choice

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; NEUROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METACOGNITION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SIGNAL DETECTION THEORY; SUBJECTIVE REPORTS; SUBLIMINAL; TWO-ALTERNATIVE FORCED CHOICE;

CONSCIOUSNESS; METACOGNITION; SIGNAL DETECTION THEORY; SUBJECTIVE REPORTS; SUBLIMINAL; TWO-ALTERNATIVE FORCED CHOICE;

ADULT; BAYES THEOREM; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84909595981     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0204     Document Type: Article

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