Confidence guides priority between forthcoming tasks.

ABSTRACT: Humans can estimate confidence in their decisions, and there is increasing interest on how this feeling of confidence regulates future behavior. Here, we investigate whether confidence in a perceptual task affects prioritizing future trials of that task, independently of task performance. To do so, we experimentally dissociated confidence from performance. Participants judged whether an array of differently colored circles was closer to blue or red, and we manipulated the mean and variability of the circles' colors across the array. We first familiarized participants with a low mean low variability condition and a high mean high variability condition, which were matched in performance despite participants being more confident in the former. Then we made participants decide in which order t

SUBMITTER: Aguilar-Lleyda D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8443637 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature