Journal
NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
Volume 4, Issue 9, Pages 949-+Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41562-020-0893-y
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- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) [320030_143443, 32003B_166566]
- Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship [PIIF-GA-2012-327196]
- EU [607310]
- SNSF [100019L_173248]
- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme [725355]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [320030_143443] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
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Theories and computational models of decision-making usually focus on how strongly different attributes are weighted in choice, for example, as a function of their importance or salience to the decision-maker. However, when different attributes affect the decision process is a question that has received far less attention. Here, we investigated whether the timing of attribute consideration has a unique influence on decision-making by using a time-varying drift diffusion model and data from four separate experiments. Experimental manipulations of attention and neural activity demonstrated that we can dissociate the processes that determine the relative weighting strength and timing of attribute consideration. Thus, the processes determining either the weighting strengths or the timing of attributes in decision-making can independently adapt to changes in the environment or goals. Quantifying these separate influences of timing and weighting on choice improves our understanding and predictions of individual differences in decision behaviour. Maier, Raja Beharelle et al. provide a computational model of the decision process that quantifies the temporal dynamics of weighing different attributes. Their time-varying drift diffusion model reveals latent individual differences in decision-making.
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