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Confidence as a Common Currency between Vision and Audition

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de Gardelle, Vincent, Le Corre, François, Mamassian, Pascal·2016·PLOS ONE

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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.

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  • People are able to estimate and compare propositional confidence about decisions made in two different sensory modalities, indicating that domain-specific confidence estimates can be broadcast and shared.

    “Behaviorally, elegant work has shown that people are able to estimate and compare propositional confidence about decisions made in two different sensory modalities, indicating that domain-specific confidence estimates can be broadcast and shared (de Gardelle et al. 2016).”

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Authors
de Gardelle, V., Le Corre, F., & Mamassian, P.
Affiliations
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
Venue
PLOS ONE
Published
2016-01-25
Volume
11
Issue
1
Pages
e0147901
ISSN
1932-6203 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2263767263
Cited by
95
References
25
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 25 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 3
FWCI
7.52
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • PLoS ONE (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PhilPapers (PhilPapers Foundation) (submittedVersion)
  • HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
  • Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-10-LABX-0093, ANR-10-BLAN-1910, ANR-10)
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Keywords
confidence, subjective probability, single currency, visual decision making, cross-modal comparison, choice behavior, metacognition
MeSH terms
Choice Behavior, Cognition, Hearing, Humans, Perception, Psychophysics, Reaction Time, Vision, Ocular

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