Natural statistics support a rational account of confidence biases

Abstract Previous work has sought to understand decision confidence as a prediction of the probability that a decision will be correct, leading to debate over whether these predictions are optimal, and whether they rely on the same decision variable as decisions themselves. This work has generally r...

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Main Authors: Taylor W. Webb, Kiyofumi Miyoshi, Tsz Yan So, Sivananda Rajananda, Hakwan Lau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39737-2