The construction of confidence in a perceptual decision

Autores
Zylberberg, Ariel Dario; Barttfeld, Pablo; Sigman, Mariano
Año de publicación
2012
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Decision-making involves the selection of one out of many possible courses of action. A decision may bear on other decisions, as when humans seek a second medical opinion before undergoing a risky surgical intervention. These “meta-decisions” are mediated by confidence judgments—the degree to which decision-makers consider that a choice is likely to be correct. We studied how subjective confidence is constructed from noisy sensory evidence. The psychophysical kernels used to convert sensory information into choice and confidence decisions were precisely reconstructed measuring the impact of small fluctuations in sensory input. This is shown in two independent experiments in which human participants made a decision about the direction of motion of a set of randomly moving dots, or compared the brightness of a group of fluctuating bars, followed by a confidence report. The results of both experiments converged to show that: (1) confidence was influenced by evidence during a short window of time at the initial moments of the decision, and (2) confidence was influenced by evidence for the selected choice but was virtually blind to evidence for the non-selected choice. Our findings challenge classical models of subjective confidence—which posit that the difference of evidence in favor of each choice is the seed of the confidence signal.
Fil: Zylberberg, Ariel Dario. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Física. Laboratorio de Neurociencia Integrativa; Argentina
Fil: Barttfeld, Pablo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Física. Laboratorio de Neurociencia Integrativa; Argentina
Fil: Sigman, Mariano. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Física. Laboratorio de Neurociencia Integrativa; Argentina
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PERCEPTUAL DECISION-MAKING
COFIDENCE
METACOGNITION
PSYCHOPHYSICAL REVERSE CORRELATION
CLASSFICATION IMAGES
ACCUMULATION MODELS OF DECISION-MAKING
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The construction of confidence in a perceptual decision
title The construction of confidence in a perceptual decision
spellingShingle The construction of confidence in a perceptual decision
Zylberberg, Ariel Dario
PERCEPTUAL DECISION-MAKING
COFIDENCE
METACOGNITION
PSYCHOPHYSICAL REVERSE CORRELATION
CLASSFICATION IMAGES
ACCUMULATION MODELS OF DECISION-MAKING
title_short The construction of confidence in a perceptual decision
title_full The construction of confidence in a perceptual decision
title_fullStr The construction of confidence in a perceptual decision
title_full_unstemmed The construction of confidence in a perceptual decision
title_sort The construction of confidence in a perceptual decision
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Zylberberg, Ariel Dario
Barttfeld, Pablo
Sigman, Mariano
author Zylberberg, Ariel Dario
author_facet Zylberberg, Ariel Dario
Barttfeld, Pablo
Sigman, Mariano
author_role author
author2 Barttfeld, Pablo
Sigman, Mariano
author2_role author
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv PERCEPTUAL DECISION-MAKING
COFIDENCE
METACOGNITION
PSYCHOPHYSICAL REVERSE CORRELATION
CLASSFICATION IMAGES
ACCUMULATION MODELS OF DECISION-MAKING
topic PERCEPTUAL DECISION-MAKING
COFIDENCE
METACOGNITION
PSYCHOPHYSICAL REVERSE CORRELATION
CLASSFICATION IMAGES
ACCUMULATION MODELS OF DECISION-MAKING
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dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Decision-making involves the selection of one out of many possible courses of action. A decision may bear on other decisions, as when humans seek a second medical opinion before undergoing a risky surgical intervention. These “meta-decisions” are mediated by confidence judgments—the degree to which decision-makers consider that a choice is likely to be correct. We studied how subjective confidence is constructed from noisy sensory evidence. The psychophysical kernels used to convert sensory information into choice and confidence decisions were precisely reconstructed measuring the impact of small fluctuations in sensory input. This is shown in two independent experiments in which human participants made a decision about the direction of motion of a set of randomly moving dots, or compared the brightness of a group of fluctuating bars, followed by a confidence report. The results of both experiments converged to show that: (1) confidence was influenced by evidence during a short window of time at the initial moments of the decision, and (2) confidence was influenced by evidence for the selected choice but was virtually blind to evidence for the non-selected choice. Our findings challenge classical models of subjective confidence—which posit that the difference of evidence in favor of each choice is the seed of the confidence signal.
Fil: Zylberberg, Ariel Dario. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Física. Laboratorio de Neurociencia Integrativa; Argentina
Fil: Barttfeld, Pablo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Física. Laboratorio de Neurociencia Integrativa; Argentina
Fil: Sigman, Mariano. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Física de Buenos Aires; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Departamento de Física. Laboratorio de Neurociencia Integrativa; Argentina
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