Global visual confidence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19034796 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alan L F Lee (0000-0001-6722-6889, corresponding author), Vincent De Gardelle (0000-0001-5977-5597), Pascal Mamassian (0000-0002-1605-4607) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1233-1242 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-25 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1069-9384 • E-ISSN: 1531-5320 |
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.3758/s13423-020-01869-7 |
| PMID | 33768504 |
| OpenAlex | W3136315776 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 24 |
Visual confidence is the observers' estimate of their precision in one single perceptual decision. Ultimately, however, observers often need to judge their confidence over a task in general rather than merely on one single decision. Here, we measured the global confidence acquired across multiple perceptual decisions. Participants performed a dual task on two series of oriented stimuli. The perceptual task was an orientation-discrimination judgment. The metacognitive task was a global confidence judgment: observers chose the series for which they felt they had performed better in the perceptual task. We found that choice accuracy in global confidence judgments improved as the number of items in the series increased, regardless of whether the global confidence judgment was made before (prospective) or after (retrospective) the perceptual decisions. This result is evidence that global confidence judgment was based on an integration of confidence information across multiple perceptual decisions rather than on a single one. Furthermore, we found a tendency for global confidence choices to be influenced by response times, and more so for recent perceptual decisions than earlier ones in the series of stimuli. Using model comparison, we found that global confidence is well described as a combination of noisy estimates of sensory evidence and position-weighted response-time evidence. In summary, humans can integrate information across multiple decisions to estimate global confidence, but this integration is not optimal, in particular because of biases in the use of response-time information
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Confidence interval · Low Confidence · Metacognition · Perception · Statistics · Face Recognition and Perception · Mathematics · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Visual perception and processing mechanisms
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| Citations per year | 1.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |