Abstract:We often postpone or even avoid making decisions when we feel uncertain. Uncertainty estimation is not an afterthought of decision making but a dynamic process that accompanies decision making in parallel and affects decision making. To study concurrent uncertainty estimation during decision making, we adapted the classic random-dots motion direction discrimination task to allow a reaction-time measure of uncertainty responses. Subjects were asked to judge whether a patch of random dots was moving left or righ… Show more
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