Mental control of uncertainty.
Bayesian inference
Information theory
Numerosity
Perception
Rational inattention
Journal
Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience
ISSN: 1531-135X
Titre abrégé: Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101083946
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
06 2023
06 2023
Historique:
accepted:
01
09
2022
medline:
1
8
2023
pubmed:
29
9
2022
entrez:
28
9
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Can you reduce uncertainty by thinking? Intuition suggests that this happens through the elusive process of attention: if we expend mental effort, we can increase the reliability of our sensory data. Models based on "rational inattention" formalize this idea in terms of a trade-off between the costs and benefits of attention. This paper surveys the origin of these models in economics, their connection to rate-distortion theory, and some of their recent applications to psychology and neuroscience. We also report new data from a numerosity judgment task in which we manipulate performance incentives. Consistent with rational inattention, people are able to improve performance on this task when incentivized, in part by increasing the reliability of their sensory data.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36168079
doi: 10.3758/s13415-022-01034-8
pii: 10.3758/s13415-022-01034-8
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
465-475Informations de copyright
© 2022. The Psychonomic Society, Inc.
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