Piéron's law and optimal behavior in perceptual decision-making
Piéron's Law describes a psychophysical regularity between mean response times and stimulus intensity in signal detection tasks. In this paper we extend this notion to perceptual two-choice decision-making, and demonstrate that Piéron's Law holds as the discriminability b...
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doaj-eb46ae1197fe458c847c37f57accdf3f2020-11-24T20:48:56ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Neuroscience1662-453X2012-01-01510.3389/fnins.2011.0014315875Piéron's law and optimal behavior in perceptual decision-makingLeendert eVan Maanen0Raoul P.P.P. Grasman1Birte U Forstmann2Eric-Jan eWagenmakers3Eric-Jan eWagenmakers4University of AmsterdamUniversity of AmsterdamUniversity of AmsterdamUniversity of AmsterdamUniversity of AmsterdamPiéron's Law describes a psychophysical regularity between mean response times and stimulus intensity in signal detection tasks. In this paper we extend this notion to perceptual two-choice decision-making, and demonstrate that Piéron's Law holds as the discriminability between two competing choices is manipulated. We present a Bayesian ideal observer model that explains why a Piéron-like regularity is found when stimulus discriminability is manipulated, and discuss how this model can be extended to cover signal detection tasks.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnins.2011.00143/fulldecision-makingBayesian ideal observerPiéron's Lawrandom-dot motion paradigm |
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Leendert eVan Maanen Raoul P.P.P. Grasman Birte U Forstmann Eric-Jan eWagenmakers Eric-Jan eWagenmakers Piéron's law and optimal behavior in perceptual decision-making Frontiers in Neuroscience decision-making Bayesian ideal observer Piéron's Law random-dot motion paradigm |
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Leendert eVan Maanen Raoul P.P.P. Grasman Birte U Forstmann Eric-Jan eWagenmakers Eric-Jan eWagenmakers |
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Piéron's law and optimal behavior in perceptual decision-making |
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Piéron's law and optimal behavior in perceptual decision-making |
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Piéron's law and optimal behavior in perceptual decision-making |
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Frontiers Media S.A. |
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Frontiers in Neuroscience |
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Piéron's Law describes a psychophysical regularity between mean response times and stimulus intensity in signal detection tasks. In this paper we extend this notion to perceptual two-choice decision-making, and demonstrate that Piéron's Law holds as the discriminability between two competing choices is manipulated. We present a Bayesian ideal observer model that explains why a Piéron-like regularity is found when stimulus discriminability is manipulated, and discuss how this model can be extended to cover signal detection tasks. |
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decision-making Bayesian ideal observer Piéron's Law random-dot motion paradigm |
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http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnins.2011.00143/full |
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