The silent period of decision making
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| Date | 22.09.2011 |
| Hour | 18:00 |
| Speaker | Prof. Michael HERZOG |
| Location | |
| Category | Miscellaneous |
In a typical experiment on decision making one out of two possible stimuli is presented per trial. Observers decide which one was presented. The underlying decision making process is commonly viewed as a one-stage process in which sensory evidence for both stimulus alternatives is accumulated until evidence for one of the stimuli crosses a threshold ("race-to-threshold process"). Using a two-stimulus presentation paradigm we found that decision making is a two-stage process in which evidence integration precedes a race-to-threshold process. This evidence integration stage is "invisible" in one-stimulus presentation paradigms which thus underestimate the duration of the entire decision making process.
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- Prof. W. GERSTNER