Human confidence judgments reflect reliability-based hierarchical integration of contextual information

Because our immediate observations are often ambiguous, we must use the context (prior beliefs) to guide inference, but the context may also be uncertain. Here, the authors show that humans can accurately estimate the reliability of the context and combine it with sensory uncertainty to form their d...

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Main Authors: Philipp Schustek, Alexandre Hyafil, Rubén Moreno-Bote
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13472-z