Becoming Confident in the Statistical Nature of Human Confidence Judgments
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In this issue of Neuron, Sanders et al. (2016) demonstrate that human confidence judgments seem to arise from computations compatible with statistical decision theory, shining a new light on the old questions of how such judgments are formed.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Neuron
دوره 90 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016