Perceptual Decision-Making: Picking the Low-Hanging Fruit?
How do we decide what we perceive? Obviously, we base our decisions on sensory evidence. However, a new and surprising study by Hagura et al. shows that our perceptual decisions are also biased by the action costs that are associated with our decisions.
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University, Kapittelweg 29, 6525 EN Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Electronic address: floris.delange@donders.ru.nl.
Floris P
FP
de Lange
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University, Kapittelweg 29, 6525 EN Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Matthias
M
Fritsche
D003657:Decision Making / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D010465:Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D011930:Reaction Time
decision bias; drift-diffusion model; motor action; perceptual decision making