Decision and metacognitive computations carry evidence of unchosen options in multialternative decisions

Fil: Comay, Nicolás A. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Psicología; Argentina.

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Autores principales: Comay, Nicolás A., Solovey, Guillermo, Barttfeld, Pablo
Otros Autores: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1693-9253
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11086/553476
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/byjv6
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/byjv6
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spelling I10-R141-11086-5534762024-09-03T06:36:14Z Decision and metacognitive computations carry evidence of unchosen options in multialternative decisions Comay, Nicolás A. Solovey, Guillermo Barttfeld, Pablo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1693-9253 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4093-2649 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8530-6938 Perceptual decision making Metacognition Confidence Multialternative decisions Computational modeling info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion Fil: Comay, Nicolás A. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Psicología; Argentina. Fil: Comay, Nicolás A. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Investigaciones Psicológicas; Argentina. Fil: Solovey, Guillermo. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. Fil: Solovey, Guillermo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Cálculo Rebeca Cherep De Guber; Argentina. Fil: Barttfeld, Pablo. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Psicología; Argentina. Fil: Barttfeld, Pablo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Investigaciones Psicológicas; Argentina. Humans often face decisions between multiple alternatives. However, our grasp of the computations underlying this process is still limited. While some evidence suggests that only the chosen alternative is represented at the decision stage, other findings indicate that information from unchosen alternatives remains accessible for decision computations. Furthermore, the amount and kind of information that reaches metacognitive levels remains unexplored. We ran two pre-registered experiments using a second-guess paradigm to understand to what extent humans retain information from choices that were discarded in a first guess. We found consistent above chance performance and metacognition in a second-guess with a 4 alternative (Exp. 1) and 12 alternative task (Exp. 2). Computational modeling suggests both the decision and metacognitive systems maintain a noisy version of the information from all alternatives. Overall, our results suggest that, although suboptimally, humans take into account evidence from unchosen options in multialternative perceptual decision making and metacognition. info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion Fil: Comay, Nicolás A. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Psicología; Argentina. Fil: Comay, Nicolás A. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Investigaciones Psicológicas; Argentina. Fil: Solovey, Guillermo. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. Fil: Solovey, Guillermo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Cálculo Rebeca Cherep De Guber; Argentina. Fil: Barttfeld, Pablo. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Psicología; Argentina. Fil: Barttfeld, Pablo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Investigaciones Psicológicas; Argentina. 2024-09-02T18:00:19Z 2024-09-02T18:00:19Z 2024 article http://hdl.handle.net/11086/553476 https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/byjv6 https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/byjv6 eng Attribution 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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topic Perceptual decision making
Metacognition
Confidence
Multialternative decisions
Computational modeling
spellingShingle Perceptual decision making
Metacognition
Confidence
Multialternative decisions
Computational modeling
Comay, Nicolás A.
Solovey, Guillermo
Barttfeld, Pablo
Decision and metacognitive computations carry evidence of unchosen options in multialternative decisions
topic_facet Perceptual decision making
Metacognition
Confidence
Multialternative decisions
Computational modeling
description Fil: Comay, Nicolás A. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Psicología; Argentina.
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Solovey, Guillermo
Barttfeld, Pablo
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title_short Decision and metacognitive computations carry evidence of unchosen options in multialternative decisions
title_full Decision and metacognitive computations carry evidence of unchosen options in multialternative decisions
title_fullStr Decision and metacognitive computations carry evidence of unchosen options in multialternative decisions
title_full_unstemmed Decision and metacognitive computations carry evidence of unchosen options in multialternative decisions
title_sort decision and metacognitive computations carry evidence of unchosen options in multialternative decisions
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https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/byjv6
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