Piéron's law and optimal behavior in perceptual decision-making

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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Main Authors: Leendert eVan Maanen, Raoul P.P.P. Grasman, Birte U Forstmann, Eric-Jan eWagenmakers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Neuroscience
Subjects:
decision-making
Bayesian ideal observer
Piéron's Law
random-dot motion paradigm
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnins.2011.00143/full
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spelling 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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author Leendert eVan Maanen
Raoul P.P.P. Grasman
Birte U Forstmann
Eric-Jan eWagenmakers
Eric-Jan eWagenmakers
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Raoul P.P.P. Grasman
Birte U Forstmann
Eric-Jan eWagenmakers
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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
author_facet Leendert eVan Maanen
Raoul P.P.P. Grasman
Birte U Forstmann
Eric-Jan eWagenmakers
Eric-Jan eWagenmakers
author_sort Leendert eVan Maanen
title Piéron's law and optimal behavior in perceptual decision-making
title_short Piéron's law and optimal behavior in perceptual decision-making
title_full Piéron's law and optimal behavior in perceptual decision-making
title_fullStr Piéron's law and optimal behavior in perceptual decision-making
title_full_unstemmed Piéron's law and optimal behavior in perceptual decision-making
title_sort piéron's law and optimal behavior in perceptual decision-making
publisher Frontiers Media S.A.
series Frontiers in Neuroscience
issn 1662-453X
publishDate 2012-01-01
description 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.
topic decision-making
Bayesian ideal observer
Piéron's Law
random-dot motion paradigm
url http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnins.2011.00143/full
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