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Task-optimized models of sensory uncertainty reproduce human confidence judgments

2025-11-02

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Sensory input is often ambiguous, leading to uncertain interpretations of the external world. Estimates of perceptual uncertainty might be useful in guiding behavior, but it remains unclear whether humans explicitly represent uncertainty in naturalistic settings, and whether any such representations are normatively correct. Progress has been hindered by the absence of stimulus-computable models that estimate uncer...

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Literature Corpus work: 88892df3-07aa-5c4e-b522-9a7a8d5c985b
DOI: 10.1101/2025.10.31.685933

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