Nadia Hosseinizaveh

Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris | ENS · Département d'Etudes Cognitives

Priors and payoffs are known to affect perceptual decision-making, but little is understood about how they influence confidence judgments. For optimal perceptual decision-making, both priors and payoffs should be considered when selecting a response. However, for confidence to reflect the probability of being correct in a perceptual decision, prior...

Priors and payoffs are known to change perceptual decision-making, but little is understood about how they influence confidence judgments. Human observers performed an orientation-discrimination task with varied priors and payoffs. We investigated the subsequent placement of discrimination and confidence criteria by comparing behavior to several pl...