We propose a new conceptual framework (computational validity) for translation across
species and populations based on the computational similarity between the information …

Decisions are made with different degrees of consistency, and this consistency can be
linked to the confidence that the best choice has been made. Theoretical work suggests that …

Biological organisms display remarkably flexible behaviours. This is an area of active
investigation, in particular in the fields of artificial intelligence, computational and cognitive …

Decisions vary in difficulty. Humans know this and typically report more confidence in easy
than in difficult decisions. However, confidence reports do not perfectly track decision …

Trial history biases and lapses are two of the most common suboptimalities observed during
perceptual decision-making. These suboptimalities are routinely assumed to arise from …

Perceptual choices depend not only on the current sensory input but also on the behavioral
context, such as the history of one's own choices. Yet, it remains unknown how such history …

What gives rise to the human sense of confidence? Here we tested the Bayesian hypothesis
that confidence is based on a probability distribution represented in neural population …

Learning from successes and failures often improves the quality of subsequent decisions.
Past outcomes, however, should not influence purely perceptual decisions after task …

Every decision we make is accompanied by a sense of confidence about its likely outcome.
This sense informs subsequent behavior, such as investing more—whether time, effort, or …

We systematically misjudge our own performance in simple economic tasks. First, we
generally overestimate our ability to make correct choices—a bias called overconfidence …