Binary classification, an act of sorting items into two classes by setting a boundary, is biased
by recent history. One common form of such bias is repulsive bias, a tendency to sort an item …

Perceptual decision-making is biased by previous events, including the history of preceding
choices: observers tend to repeat (or alternate) their judgments of the sensory environment …

Humans exhibit substantial biases in their decision making even in simple two-choice tasks,
but the origin of these biases remains unclear. I hypothesized that one source of bias could …

Bias occurs in perceptual decisions when the reward associated with a particular response
dominates the sensory evidence in support of a choice. However, it remains unclear how …

Prediction-for-perception theories suggest that the brain predicts incoming stimuli to facilitate
their categorization. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 However, it remains …

Perceptual decision making is believed to be driven by the accumulation of sensory
evidence following stimulus encoding. More controversially, some studies report that neural …

When making choices under conditions of perceptual uncertainty, past experience can play
a vital role. However, it can also lead to biases that worsen decisions. Consistent with …

Humans and monkeys can learn to classify perceptual information in a statistically optimal
fashion if the functional groupings remain stable over many hundreds of trials, but little is …

Category learning, learning to sort a set of stimuli into categories or groups, can induce
category biases in perception such that items in the same category are perceived as more …

Studies by cognitive psychologists, psychophysicists, neuroscientists, and economists
provide ample evidence that humans use prior knowledge to bias decisions adaptively. In …