Bayesian Inference Underlies the Contraction Bias in Delayed Comparison Tasks

Delayed comparison tasks are widely used in the study of working memory and perception in psychology and neuroscience. It has long been known, however, that decisions in these tasks are biased. When the two stimuli in a delayed comparison trial are small in magnitude, subjects tend to report that...

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Main Authors: Ashourian, Paymon, Loewenstein, Yonatan
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Public Library of Science 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66092