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SUBMITTER: Khalvati K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8481237 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Khalvati Koosha K Kiani Roozbeh R Rao Rajesh P N RPN
Nature communications 20210929 1
In perceptual decisions, subjects infer hidden states of the environment based on noisy sensory information. Here we show that both choice and its associated confidence are explained by a Bayesian framework based on partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs). We test our model on monkeys performing a direction-discrimination task with post-decision wagering, demonstrating that the model explains objective accuracy and predicts subjective confidence. Further, we show that the model r ...[more]