Knowing when to move on: cognitive and perceptual decisions in time
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Knowing when to move on: cognitive and perceptual decisions in time. / Jarvstad, Andreas; Rushton, Simon K; Warren, Paul A; Hahn, Ulrike.
In: PSYCHOL SCI, Vol. 23, No. 6, 6, 2012, p. 589-597.Research output: SCORING: Contribution to journal › SCORING: Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Knowing when to move on: cognitive and perceptual decisions in time
AU - Jarvstad, Andreas
AU - Rushton, Simon K
AU - Warren, Paul A
AU - Hahn, Ulrike
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - We investigated people's ability to decide how much time to spend on the task at hand. To make such decisions well, one must take into account, among other things, the cost of failing and how one's task performance changes as a function of time. We first investigated timing decisions when the underlying task was perceptual. Decisions were highly efficient and suggested that people can make good use of perceptual knowledge and abstract reward information. Previous studies have found that perceptual decisions are generally optimal, but that cognitive decisions are generally suboptimal--a perception-cognition gap. Does a similar gap exist for timing decisions? We compared timing decisions for a perceptual task with timing decisions for more cognitive tasks. Performance was highly similar across the tasks, which suggests that knowledge can be acquired, and used to make timing decisions, in an equally efficient way regardless of whether that knowledge is derived through perceptual or cognitive experience.
AB - We investigated people's ability to decide how much time to spend on the task at hand. To make such decisions well, one must take into account, among other things, the cost of failing and how one's task performance changes as a function of time. We first investigated timing decisions when the underlying task was perceptual. Decisions were highly efficient and suggested that people can make good use of perceptual knowledge and abstract reward information. Previous studies have found that perceptual decisions are generally optimal, but that cognitive decisions are generally suboptimal--a perception-cognition gap. Does a similar gap exist for timing decisions? We compared timing decisions for a perceptual task with timing decisions for more cognitive tasks. Performance was highly similar across the tasks, which suggests that knowledge can be acquired, and used to make timing decisions, in an equally efficient way regardless of whether that knowledge is derived through perceptual or cognitive experience.
KW - Humans
KW - Time Factors
KW - Discrimination (Psychology)
KW - Decision Making
KW - Task Performance and Analysis
KW - Cognition
KW - Motion Perception
KW - Punishment
KW - Reward
KW - Time Perception
KW - Humans
KW - Time Factors
KW - Discrimination (Psychology)
KW - Decision Making
KW - Task Performance and Analysis
KW - Cognition
KW - Motion Perception
KW - Punishment
KW - Reward
KW - Time Perception
U2 - 10.1177/0956797611426579
DO - 10.1177/0956797611426579
M3 - SCORING: Journal article
VL - 23
SP - 589
EP - 597
JO - PSYCHOL SCI
JF - PSYCHOL SCI
SN - 0956-7976
IS - 6
M1 - 6
ER -
