The suboptimality of perceptual decision making with multiple alternatives

J Yeon, D Rahnev - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
… and limitations of perceptual decision making requires that … decisions with multiple alternatives.
One critical difference between perceptual decisions with two versus multiple alternatives

… mechanisms of multi-alternative perceptual decision making: ability to explain human behavior, predictions for neurophysiology, and relationship with decision theory

J Ditterich - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2010 - frontiersin.org
… wide agreement about perceptual decision making relying … mechanisms for multi-alternative
perceptual decision making, … for combining signals across alternatives. It is shown that a …

Perceptual decisions between multiple directions of visual motion

M Niwa, J Ditterich - Journal of Neuroscience, 2008 - Soc Neuroscience
… To study the neural mechanisms of perceptual decision making between multiple
alternatives, we asked human observers to judge the direction of the strongest of three motion …

Decision-making with multiple alternatives

AK Churchland, R Kiani, MN Shadlen - Nature neuroscience, 2008 - nature.com
… In simple decisions, perceptual observations allow an animal to choose between action
and inaction, or between two alternative actions. These are simple instances of complex …

Bridging neural and computational viewpoints on perceptual decision-making

RG O'Connell, MN Shadlen, KF Wong-Lin… - Trends in …, 2018 - cell.com
… computational and neurophysiological investigations of perceptual decision-making. While
these models share the basic principle that decisions are formed by accumulating sensory …

[PDF][PDF] The case against full probability distributions in perceptual decision making

D Rahnev - BioRxiv, 2017 - rahnevlab.gatech.edu
… How are perceptual decisions made? The answer to … perceptual representations on which
decisions are based. Recent work has taken for granted that the representation at the decision

The neurodynamic decision variable in human multi-alternative perceptual choice

C Kohl, L Spieser, B Forster, S Bestmann… - Journal of cognitive …, 2019 - direct.mit.edu
… underpinning binary perceptual decisions and their … world decisions typically offer more than
two response alternatives… of multiple alternatives on the neurodynamic decision variable in …

Suboptimality in perceptual decision making

D Rahnev, RN Denison - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2018 - cambridge.org
… in perceptual tasks. We discuss eight different classes of suboptimal perceptual decisions, …
We discuss alternative ways of defining optimality in section 4 and ultimately argue that …

The encoding of alternatives in multiple-choice decision making

L Albantakis, G Deco - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
decision making with multiple alternatives. In this article, we address the question how different
numbers of choice alternatives … model for decision making with multiple alternatives. Our …

The optimal experimental design for multiple alternatives perceptual search

NJ Finlayson, K Manser-Smith, A Balraj… - Attention, Perception, & …, 2018 - Springer
… heterogeneity of perceptual biases, decision factors are relatively unlikely to skew
measurements: observers should have little reason to make different perceptual decisions for each …