Piercing of Consciousness as a Threshold-Crossing Operation

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作者
Kang, Yul H. R. [1 ]
Petzschner, Frederike H. [2 ,3 ]
Wolpert, Daniel M. [4 ]
Shadlen, Michael N. [1 ,5 ,6 ]
机构
[1] Columbia Univ, Zuckerman Mind Brain Behav, Dept Neurosci, New York, NY 10032 USA
[2] Univ Zurich, Inst Biomed Engn, TNU, CH-8032 Zurich, Switzerland
[3] Swiss Fed Inst Technol, CH-8032 Zurich, Switzerland
[4] Univ Cambridge, Dept Engn, Computat & Biol Learning Lab, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, England
[5] Columbia Univ, Kavli Inst, New York, NY 10032 USA
[6] Columbia Univ, Howard Hughes Med Inst, New York, NY 10032 USA
基金
英国惠康基金;
关键词
PERCEPTUAL DECISION-MAKING; MONTE-CARLO PROCEDURES; EMPIRICAL P-VALUES; PARIETAL CORTEX; NEURAL BASIS; ACCUMULATING EVIDENCE; TIME; MOTION; INTEGRATION; SIGNALS;
D O I
10.1016/j.cub.2017.06.047
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Many decisions arise through an accumulation of evidence to a terminating threshold. The process, termed bounded evidence accumulation (or drift diffusion), provides a unified account of decision speed and accuracy, and it is supported by neurophysiology in human and animal models. In many situations, a decision maker may not communicate a decision immediately and yet feel that at some point she had made up her mind. We hypothesized that this occurs when an accumulation of evidence reaches a termination threshold, registered, subjectively, as an "aha" moment. We asked human participants to make perceptual decisions about the net direction of dynamic random dot motion. The difficulty and viewing duration were controlled by the experimenter. After indicating their choice, participants adjusted the setting of a clock to the moment they felt they had reached a decision. The subjective decision times (tSDs) were faster on trials with stronger (easier) motion, and they were well fit by a bounded drift-diffusion model. The fits to the tSDs alone furnished parameters that fully predicted the choices (accuracy) of four of the five participants. The quality of the prediction provides compelling evidence that these subjective reports correspond to the terminating process of a decision rather than a post hoc inference or arbitrary report. Thus, conscious awareness of having reached a decision appears to arise when the brain's representation of accumulated evidence reaches a threshold or bound. We propose that such a mechanism might play a more widespread role in the "piercing of consciousness" by non-conscious thought processes.
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页数:17
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