Predictions and rewards affect decision-making but not subjective experience.

ABSTRACT: To survive, organisms constantly make decisions to avoid danger and maximize rewards in information-rich environments. As a result, decisions about sensory input are not only driven by sensory information but also by other factors, such as the expected rewards of a decision (known as the payoff matrix) or by information about temporal regularities in the environment (known as cognitive priors or predictions). However, it is unknown to what extent these different types of information affect subjective experience or whether they merely result in nonperceptual response criterion shifts. To investigate this question, we used three carefully matched manipulations that typically result in behavioral shifts in decision criteria: a visual illusion (Müller-Lyer condition), a punishment scheme (payo

SUBMITTER: Sanchez-Fuenzalida N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10622870 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature