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Urgency, leakage, and the relative nature of information processing in decision-making
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Trueblood, JS and Heathcote, A and Evans, NJ and Holmes, WR, Urgency, leakage, and the relative nature of information processing in decision-making, Psychological Review, 128, (1) pp. 160-186. ISSN 0033-295X (2021) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
Over the last decade, there has been a robust debate in decision neuroscience and psychology about what mechanism governs the time course of decision making. Historically, the most prominent hypothesis is that neural architectures accumulate information over time until some threshold is met, the so-called Evidence Accumulation hypothesis. However, most applications of this theory rely on simplifying assumptions, belying a number of potential complexities. Is changing stimulus information perceived and processed in an independent manner or is there a relative component? Does urgency play a role? What about evidence leakage? Although the latter questions have been the subject of recent investigations, most studies to date have been piecemeal in nature, addressing one aspect of the decision process or another. Here we develop a modeling framework, an extension of the Urgency Gating Model, in conjunction with a changing information experimental paradigm to simultaneously probe these aspects of the decision process. Using state-of-the-art Bayesian methods to perform parameter-based inference, we find that 1) information processing is relative with early information influencing the perception of late information, 2) time varying urgency and evidence accumulation are of roughly equal importance in the decision process, and 3) leakage is present with a time scale of ~200-250ms. To our knowledge, this is the first comprehensive study to utilize a changing information paradigm to jointly and quantitatively estimate the temporal dynamics of human decision-making.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Research Division: | Psychology |
| Research Group: | Cognitive and computational psychology |
| Research Field: | Decision making |
| Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
| Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in psychology |
| UTAS Author: | Heathcote, A (Professor Andrew Heathcote) |
| ID Code: | 146568 |
| Year Published: | 2021 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 11 |
| Deposited By: | Psychology |
| Deposited On: | 2021-09-13 |
| Last Modified: | 2021-10-25 |
| Downloads: | 9 View Download Statistics |
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