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Weighting mean and variability during confidence judgments.

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Humans can not only perform some visual tasks with great precision, they can also judge how good they are in these tasks. However, it remains unclear how observers produce such metacognitive evaluations, and how these evaluations might be dissociated from the performance in the visual task. Here, we hypothesized that some stimulus variables could affect confidence judgments above and beyond their impact on performance. In a motion categorization task on moving dots, we manipulated the mean and the variance of the motion directions, to obtain a low-mean low-variance condition and a high-mean high-variance condition with matched performances. Critically, in terms of confidence, observers were not indifferent between these two conditions. Observers exhibited marked preferences, which were heterogeneous across individuals, but stable within each observer when assessed one week later. Thus, confidence and performance are dissociable and observers' confidence judgments put different weights on the stimulus variables that limit performance.

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Psychologie
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hal-01241982 , version 1 (15-12-2015)

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Vincent de Gardelle, Pascal Mamassian. Weighting mean and variability during confidence judgments.. PLoS ONE, 2014, 10 (3), pp.e0120870. ⟨10.1371/journal.pone.0120870⟩. ⟨hal-01241982⟩
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