The influence of endogenous and exogenous spatial attention on decision confidence
| Autor: | Katharine A Shapcott, Joscha T. Schmiedt, Jochen Kaiser, Michael C. Schmid, Phillipp Kurtz |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Male Eye Movements Science Control (management) Decision Making 050105 experimental psychology Article Task (project management) 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Orientation Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Attention ddc:610 Decision-making Multidisciplinary business.industry 05 social sciences Decision confidence Nontherapeutic Human Experimentation Medicine Female Artificial intelligence Cues business Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Overconfidence effect Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Scientific Reports Scientific Reports, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2017) Sci Rep |
| Popis: | Spatial attention allows us to make more accurate decisions about events in our environment. Decision confidence is thought to be intimately linked to the decision making process as confidence ratings are tightly coupled to decision accuracy. While both spatial attention and decision confidence have been subjected to extensive research, surprisingly little is known about the interaction between these two processes. Since attention increases performance it might be expected that confidence would also increase. However, two studies investigating the effects of endogenous attention on decision confidence found contradictory results. Here we investigated the effects of two distinct forms of spatial attention on decision confidence; endogenous attention and exogenous attention. We used an orientation-matching task, comparing the two attention conditions (endogenous and exogenous) to a control condition without directed attention. Participants performed better under both attention conditions than in the control condition. Higher confidence ratings than the control condition were found under endogenous attention but not under exogenous attention. This finding suggests that while attention can increase confidence ratings, it must be voluntarily deployed for this increase to take place. We discuss possible implications of this relative overconfidence found only during endogenous attention with respect to the theoretical background of decision confidence. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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