Putting perception into action with inverse optimal control for continuous psychophysics.

ABSTRACT: Psychophysical methods are a cornerstone of psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience where they have been used to quantify behavior and its neural correlates for a vast range of mental phenomena. Their power derives from the combination of controlled experiments and rigorous analysis through signal detection theory. Unfortunately, they require many tedious trials and preferably highly trained participants. A recently developed approach, continuous psychophysics, promises to transform the field by abandoning the rigid trial structure involving binary responses and replacing it with continuous behavioral adjustments to dynamic stimuli. However, what has precluded wide adoption of this approach is that current analysis methods do not account for the additional variability introduced by

SUBMITTER: Straub D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9522207 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature