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Confidence control for efficient behaviour in dynamic environments

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  • Tarryn Balsdon

    (University of Glasgow
    CNRS (UMR 8248))

  • Marios G. Philiastides

    (University of Glasgow)

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Signatures of confidence emerge during decision-making, implying confidence may be of functional importance to decision processes themselves. We formulate an extension of sequential sampling models of decision-making in which confidence is used online to actively moderate the quality and quantity of evidence accumulated for decisions. The benefit of this model is that it can respond to dynamic changes in sensory evidence quality. We highlight this feature by designing a dynamic sensory environment where evidence quality can be smoothly adapted within the timeframe of a single decision. Our model with confidence control offers a superior description of human behaviour in this environment, compared to sequential sampling models without confidence control. Using multivariate decoding of electroencephalography (EEG), we uncover EEG correlates of the model’s latent processes, and show stronger EEG-derived confidence control is associated with faster, more accurate decisions. These results support a neurobiologically plausible framework featuring confidence as an active control mechanism for improving behavioural efficiency.

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  • Tarryn Balsdon & Marios G. Philiastides, 2024. "Confidence control for efficient behaviour in dynamic environments," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-12, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:15:y:2024:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-024-53312-3
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-53312-3
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    1. Tarryn Balsdon & M. Andrea Pisauro & Marios G. Philiastides, 2024. "Distinct basal ganglia contributions to learning from implicit and explicit value signals in perceptual decision-making," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-14, December.
    2. Alexandre Salvador & Luc H. Arnal & Fabien Vinckier & Philippe Domenech & Raphaël Gaillard & Valentin Wyart, 2022. "Premature commitment to uncertain decisions during human NMDA receptor hypofunction," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-15, December.
    3. M. Andrea Pisauro & Elsa Fouragnan & Chris Retzler & Marios G. Philiastides, 2017. "Neural correlates of evidence accumulation during value-based decisions revealed via simultaneous EEG-fMRI," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 8(1), pages 1-9, August.
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