The Influence of Endogenous and Exogenous Spatial Attention on Decision Confidence.

ABSTRACT: Spatial attention allows us to make more accurate decisions about events in our environment. Decision confidence is thought to be intimately linked to the decision making process as confidence ratings are tightly coupled to decision accuracy. While both spatial attention and decision confidence have been subjected to extensive research, surprisingly little is known about the interaction between these two processes. Since attention increases performance it might be expected that confidence would also increase. However, two studies investigating the effects of endogenous attention on decision confidence found contradictory results. Here we investigated the effects of two distinct forms of spatial attention on decision confidence; endogenous attention and exogenous attention. We used an orien

SUBMITTER: Kurtz P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5527098 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature