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Attention Score in Context
| Title |
Selective Attention Increases Choice Certainty in Human Decision Making
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, July 2012
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0041136 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Leopold Zizlsperger, Thomas Sauvigny, Thomas Haarmeier |
| Abstract |
Choice certainty is a probabilistic estimate of past performance and expected outcome. In perceptual decisions the degree of confidence correlates closely with choice accuracy and reaction times, suggesting an intimate relationship to objective performance. Here we show that spatial and feature-based attention increase human subjects' certainty more than accuracy in visual motion discrimination tasks. Our findings demonstrate for the first time a dissociation of choice accuracy and certainty with a significantly stronger influence of voluntary top-down attention on subjective performance measures than on objective performance. These results reveal a so far unknown mechanism of the selection process implemented by attention and suggest a unique biological valence of choice certainty beyond a faithful reflection of the decision process. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 7 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Egypt | 2 | 29% |
| France | 1 | 14% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 14% |
| Unknown | 3 | 43% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 71% |
| Scientists | 1 | 14% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 14% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 92 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 1 | 1% |
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| Pakistan | 1 | 1% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 88 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 20 | 22% |
| Researcher | 15 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 9 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 8 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 9% |
| Other | 17 | 18% |
| Unknown | 15 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 36 | 39% |
| Neuroscience | 8 | 9% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 7 | 8% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 6 | 7% |
| Computer Science | 4 | 4% |
| Other | 15 | 16% |
| Unknown | 16 | 17% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 August 2012.
All research outputs
#6,033,966
of 22,671,366 outputs
Outputs from PLOS ONE
#72,130
of 193,517 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#42,304
of 163,490 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#1,186
of 3,970 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 22,671,366 research outputs across all sources so far. This one has received more attention than most of these and is in the 73rd percentile.
So far Altmetric has tracked 193,517 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 15.0. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 62% of its peers.
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