Determining the psychological, computational, and neural bases of confidence and
uncertainty holds promise for understanding foundational aspects of human metacognition …

When facing uncertainty, adaptive behavioral strategies demand that the brain performs
probabilistic computations. In this probabilistic framework, the notion of certainty and …

People are often aware of their mistakes, and report levels of confidence in their choices that
correlate with objective performance. These metacognitive assessments of decision quality …

Human perceptual decisions are often described as optimal. Critics of this view have argued
that claims of optimality are overly flexible and lack explanatory power. Meanwhile …

Scientific thinking about the minds of humans and other animals has been transformed by
the idea that the brain is Bayesian. A cornerstone of this idea is that agents set the balance …

Performance monitoring is a key cognitive function, allowing to detect mistakes and adapt
future behavior. Post-decisional neural signals have been identified that are sensitive to …

Previous studies have shown that timing of sensory stimulation during the cardiac cycle
interacts with perception. Given the natural coupling of respiration and cardiac activity, we …

How does time pressure influence exploration and decision-making? We investigated this
question with several four-armed bandit tasks manipulating (within subjects) expected …

Our perceptual experiences are accompanied by a subjective sense of certainty. These
confidence judgements typically correlate meaningfully with the probability that the relevant …

Perceptual decisions are accompanied by feelings of confidence that reflect the likelihood
that the decision was correct. Here we aim to clarify the relationship between perception and …