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CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY
Volume 37, Issue -, Pages 121-125Publisher
CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2016.01.015
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- NIH [R01 EY015260]
- NSF [1533623]
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie [1533623] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Psychophysical techniques typically assume straightforward relationships between manipulations of real-world events, their effects on the brain, and behavioral reports of those effects. However, these relationships can be influenced by many complex, strategic factors that contribute to task performance. Here we discuss several of these factors that share two key features. First, they involve subjects making flexible use of time to process information. Second, this flexibility can reflect the rational regulation of information-processing trade-offs that can play prominent roles in particular temporal epochs: sensitivity to stability versus change for past information, speed versus accuracy for current information, and exploitation versus exploration for future goals. Understanding how subjects manage these trade-offs can be used to help design and interpret psychophysical studies.
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