title: Confidence as a Common Currency between Vision and Audition.
abstract: The idea of a common currency underlying our choice behaviour has played an important role in sciences of behaviour, from neurobiology to psychology and economics. However, while it has been mainly investigated in terms of values, with a common scale on which goods would be evaluated and compared, the question of a common scale for subjective probabilities and confidence in particular has received only little empirical investigation so far. The present study extends previous work addressing this question, by showing that confidence can be compared across visual and auditory decisions, with the same precision as for the comparison of two trials within the same task. We discuss the possibility that confidence could serve as a common currency when describing our choices to ourselves and to others.
authors.affiliation: Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne, CNRS UMR 8174, Paris, France.|Paris School of Economics, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: de Gardelle
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs, CNRS UMR 8248, Paris, France.|Institut d'Etude de la Cognition, École Normale Supérieure-PSL Research University, Paris, France.
authors.forename: François
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Le Corre
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire des Systèmes Perceptifs, CNRS UMR 8248, Paris, France.|Institut d'Etude de la Cognition, École Normale Supérieure-PSL Research University, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Pascal
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mamassian
mesh_terms: D002755:Choice Behavior; D003071:Cognition; D006309:Hearing; D006801:Humans; D010465:Perception; D011601:Psychophysics; D011930:Reaction Time; D014785:Vision, Ocular