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Perceptual confidence demonstrates trial-by-trial insight into the precision of audio-visual timing encoding

Keane, B., Spence, M., Yarrow, K. & Arnold, D. H. (2015). Perceptual confidence demonstrates trial-by-trial insight into the precision of audio-visual timing encoding. Consciousness and Cognition, 38, pp. 107-117. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2015.10.010

Abstract

Peoples’ subjective feelings of confidence typically correlate positively with objective measures of task performance, even when no performance feedback is provided. This relationship has seldom been investigated in the field of human time perception. Here we find a positive relationship between the precision of human timing perception and decisional confidence. We first demonstrate that subjective audio–visual timing judgements are more precise when people report a high, as opposed to a low, level of confidence. We then find that this relationship is more likely to result from variance in sensory timing estimates than the application of variable decision criteria, as the relationship held when we adopted a measure of timing sensitivity designed to limit the influence of subjective criteria. Our results suggest analyses of timing perception and associated decisional confidence reflect the trial-by-trial variability with which timing has been encoded.

Publication Type: Article
Additional Information: © 2015 Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Departments: School of Health & Psychological Sciences > Psychology
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