Flexibility of Timescales of Evidence Evaluation for Decision Making

• Published in: Current biology Vol. 29; no. 12; pp. 2091 - 2097.e4
• Main Authors: Ganupuru, Preetham, Goldring, Adam B., Harun, Rashed, Hanks, Timothy D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 17.06.2019
• Subjects: Adult; audition; behavioral modeling; change detection; cognitive flexibility; confidence; Decision Making; evidence evaluation; Female; human; Humans; Judgment; Male; Psychophysics; Time Factors; timescale; Young Adult; audition; decision making; confidence; change detection; evidence evaluation; psychophysics; timescale; cognitive flexibility; behavioral modeling; human

To understand the neural mechanisms that support decision making, it is critical to characterize the timescale of evidence evaluation. Recent work has shown that subjects can adaptively adjust the timescale of evidence evaluation across blocks of trials depending on context [1]. However, it’s curren...