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Guessing reveals internal models of perceptual precision

2026-01-16

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When observers lack sufficient information to support a confident response, they often guess. Guessing plays a pervasive role in visual cognition and working memory, yet the mechanisms that govern how observers generate guesses remain poorly understood. Standard models traditionally assume that responses produced in the absence of information are either uniformly distributed over feature space or are perhaps weigh...

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Literature Corpus work: 762cc5d2-2c4c-5683-ad72-35278a029fc9
DOI: 10.64898/2026.01.15.699528

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