Humans strategically shift decision bias by flexibly adjusting sensory evidence accumulation

Decision bias is traditionally conceptualized as an internal reference against which sensory evidence is compared. Instead, we show that individuals implement decision bias by shifting the rate of sensory evidence accumulation toward a decision bound. Participants performed a target detection task w...

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Main Authors: Niels A Kloosterman, Jan Willem de Gee, Markus Werkle-Bergner, Ulman Lindenberger, Douglas D Garrett, Johannes Jacobus Fahrenfort
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2019-02-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/37321