Confidence Leak in Perceptual Decision Making

Psychological Science

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1664-1680

  Rahnev, Dobromir ^a,b   Koizumi, Ai ^c   McCurdy, Li Yan ^d   D’Esposito, Mark ^b   Lau, Hakwan ^e  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

attention; decision making; open data; open materials; perception

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BAYES THEOREM; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VISION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; BAYES THEOREM; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84946397380     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797615595037     Document Type: Article

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