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Phasic alertness generates urgency and amplifies competition between evidence accumulators

2024-06-22

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Although phasic alertness generally benefits cognitive performance, it often increases the interference caused by distracting information, resulting in impaired decision-making and cognitive control. However, it is unclear why phasic alertness has these negative effects. Here, we present a novel, biologically-informed account, according to which phasic alertness generates an evidence-independent urgency signal. Th...

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Literature Corpus work: 0299a460-a70e-5a28-b259-1560865d3728
DOI: 10.1101/2024.06.18.599522

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