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Self-Evaluation of Decision-Making: A General Bayesian Framework for Metacognitive Computation

Fleming, Stephen M., Daw, Nathaniel D.·2017·Psychological Review
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  • A confidence computation may leverage information provided by one's own actions when inferring whether a decision is likely to be correct.

    “Fleming & Daw (2017) proposed that a confidence computation may leverage information provided by one's own actions when inferring whether a decision is likely to be correct.”

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  • If there are additional sources of decisional or metacognitive noise, or if additional information arrives after committing to a decision, then propositional confidence should also be affected by these factors.

    “However, if there are additional sources of decisional or metacognitive noise, or if additional information arrives after committing to a decision, then propositional confidence should also be affected by these factors (Fleming & Daw 2017).”

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Authors
Fleming, S. M., & Daw, N. D.
Venue
Psychological Review
Publisher
American Psychological Association (APA)
Published
2017-01
Volume
124
Issue
1
Pages
91-114
ISSN
  • 1939-1471
  • 0033-295X
DOI
10.1037/rev0000045
PMC
PMC5178868
Cited by
489
References
34
Language
en
Licence
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (vor)
Funders
  • Wellcome Trust (WT096185)
  • MacDonnell Foundation

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