Toward a Unified View of the Speed-Accuracy Trade-Off: Behaviour, Neurophysiology and Modelling
Everyone is familiar with the speed-accuracy trade-off (SAT). To make good choices, we need to balance the conflicting demands of fast and accurate decision making. After all, hasty decisions often lead to poor choices, but accurate decisions may be useless if they take too long. This notion is intu...
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| author | Richard P. Heitz Dominic Standage Da-Hui Wang Patrick Simen |
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| description | Everyone is familiar with the speed-accuracy trade-off (SAT). To make good choices, we need to balance the conflicting demands of fast and accurate decision making. After all, hasty decisions often lead to poor choices, but accurate decisions may be useless if they take too long. This notion is intuitive because it reflects a fundamental aspect of cognition: not only do we deliberate over the evidence for decisions, but we can control that deliberative process. This control raises many questions for the study of choice behaviour and executive function. For example, how do we figure out the appropriate balance between speed and accuracy on a given task? How do we impose that balance on our decisions, and what is its neural basis? Researchers have addressed these and related questions for decades, using a variety of methods and offering answers at different levels of abstraction. Given this diverse methodology, our aim is to provide a unified view of the SAT. Extensive analysis of choice behaviour suggests that we make decisions by accumulating evidence until some criterion is reached. Thus, adjusting the criterion controls how long we accumulate evidence and therefore the speed and accuracy of decisions. This simple framework provides the platform for our unified view. In the pages that follow, leading experts in decision neuroscience consider the history of SAT research, strategies for determining the optimal balance between speed and accuracy, conditions under which this seemingly ubiquitous phenomenon breaks down, and the neural mechanisms that may implement the computations of our unifying framework. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-610382024-04-05T17:31:15Z Toward a Unified View of the Speed-Accuracy Trade-Off: Behaviour, Neurophysiology and Modelling Richard P. Heitz Dominic Standage Da-Hui Wang Patrick Simen RC321-571 Q1-390 Decision Making Neural mechanisms of cognition Speed-accuracy trade-off decision neuroscience bounded integration thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAN Neurosciences Everyone is familiar with the speed-accuracy trade-off (SAT). To make good choices, we need to balance the conflicting demands of fast and accurate decision making. After all, hasty decisions often lead to poor choices, but accurate decisions may be useless if they take too long. This notion is intuitive because it reflects a fundamental aspect of cognition: not only do we deliberate over the evidence for decisions, but we can control that deliberative process. This control raises many questions for the study of choice behaviour and executive function. For example, how do we figure out the appropriate balance between speed and accuracy on a given task? How do we impose that balance on our decisions, and what is its neural basis? Researchers have addressed these and related questions for decades, using a variety of methods and offering answers at different levels of abstraction. Given this diverse methodology, our aim is to provide a unified view of the SAT. Extensive analysis of choice behaviour suggests that we make decisions by accumulating evidence until some criterion is reached. Thus, adjusting the criterion controls how long we accumulate evidence and therefore the speed and accuracy of decisions. This simple framework provides the platform for our unified view. In the pages that follow, leading experts in decision neuroscience consider the history of SAT research, strategies for determining the optimal balance between speed and accuracy, conditions under which this seemingly ubiquitous phenomenon breaks down, and the neural mechanisms that may implement the computations of our unifying framework. 2021-02-12T06:07:18Z 2021-02-12T06:07:18Z 2016-04-07 11:22:02 2016 book 18876 16648714 9782889197569 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/61038 eng Frontiers Research Topics image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International http://www.frontiersin.org/books/Toward_a_Unified_View_of_the_Speed-Accuracy_Trade-Off_Behaviour_Neurophysiology_and_Modelling/805#nogo http://journal.frontiersin.org/researchtopic/1647/toward-a-unified-view-of-the-speed-accuracy-trade-off-behaviour-neurophysiology-and-modelling Frontiers Media SA 10.3389/978-2-88919-756-9 10.3389/978-2-88919-756-9 bf5ce210-e72e-4860-ba9b-c305640ff3ae 9782889197569 160 open access |
| spellingShingle | RC321-571 Q1-390 Decision Making Neural mechanisms of cognition Speed-accuracy trade-off decision neuroscience bounded integration thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAN Neurosciences Richard P. Heitz Dominic Standage Da-Hui Wang Patrick Simen Toward a Unified View of the Speed-Accuracy Trade-Off: Behaviour, Neurophysiology and Modelling |
| title | Toward a Unified View of the Speed-Accuracy Trade-Off: Behaviour, Neurophysiology and Modelling |
| title_full | Toward a Unified View of the Speed-Accuracy Trade-Off: Behaviour, Neurophysiology and Modelling |
| title_fullStr | Toward a Unified View of the Speed-Accuracy Trade-Off: Behaviour, Neurophysiology and Modelling |
| title_full_unstemmed | Toward a Unified View of the Speed-Accuracy Trade-Off: Behaviour, Neurophysiology and Modelling |
| title_short | Toward a Unified View of the Speed-Accuracy Trade-Off: Behaviour, Neurophysiology and Modelling |
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| topic | RC321-571 Q1-390 Decision Making Neural mechanisms of cognition Speed-accuracy trade-off decision neuroscience bounded integration thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAN Neurosciences |
| topic_facet | RC321-571 Q1-390 Decision Making Neural mechanisms of cognition Speed-accuracy trade-off decision neuroscience bounded integration thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAN Neurosciences |
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