Seeing what you want to see: priors for one’s own actions represent exaggerated expectations of success

People perceive the consequences of their own actions differently to how they perceive other sensory events. A large body of psychology research has shown that people also consistently overrate their own performance relative to others, yet little is known about how these ‘illusions of superiority’ a...

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Main Authors: Noham eWolpe, Daniel M Wolpert, James eRowe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00232/full