Human noise blindness drives suboptimal cognitive inference

Santiago Herce Castañón and colleagues show that people are blind to mental errors that arise when combining multiple pieces of discordant information. This blindness helps explain why cognitive judgements often are suboptimal.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Santiago Herce Castañón, Rani Moran, Jacqueline Ding, Tobias Egner, Dan Bang, Christopher Summerfield
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09330-7